Posted by sleepy-in-seattle on July 14, 2008 at 07:15:29:

In Reply to: surgeries making a dental device be posted by mark123 on July 11, 2008 at 14:49:51:

I haven't used one myself, but many of the posters here have used them. The feeling I get is that relatively few see success without accompanying problems (TMJ etc.).

It seems like dental devices can be a good way to let someone experience some airway widening - sort of as a precursor to surgery like MMA+GA.

My issue with the devices is that, as far as I can see, they intentionally shift jaws out of orthodontic alignment - doing harm to one system in order to cure another. I just don't see that as being anything but a stopgap solution.

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