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Raw Weston Price / Re: Fixing narrow palates and cranial deformities
« on: November 21, 2010, 01:45:40 pm »
Hi all, I'm new here to the site. My family and I have been eating W.P. for about 5 years.... I'm looking to go more raw paleo though. Anywho I have 3 kids, 9...11...13 and I've been done what I can for them over the past 5 years of finding and eating clean etc. But it wasn't enough for full genetic cranial expression.
I found this site (PLEASE scroll down to the bottom of the screen and watch the 2 videos, they're each about 7 minutes long) .... http://www.orthotropics.com/#
So for any of you who have young children, please take note that NOW is the time to act if their growth is taking an unfavorable direction. You would know that by measuring them. The last paragraph at the bottom of this page entitled "Where should the teeth be?" http://www.orthotropics.com/patients_parents/parents_earlysigns.html
My oldest daughter (who has been eating a nutrient dense diet for 5 years now) is 13. It seems most of her growth is done already so we missed out on using it as a guide for favorable growth of down and forward (as well as outward) of the jaws and palate. However they are willing to treat her in order to correct her class III mallocclusion aka underbite, with whatever little growth she does have left.... as well as lateral expand her palate. She has worn the appliance in conjunction with forward pulling protraction gear for 5 weeks now. We went for an adjustment appointment 2 days ago and they told us to STOP!!!! They didn't expect so much movement. The projected treatment time was 4 months to a year. It was 5 weeks
I have heard that people who eat nutrient dense diets have faster movement.... but ..... this was crazy. She's not done yet though, they're giving her a little break on wearing the protraction gear, but in about a week or 2 she's going to have to put it back on. The expansion is DONE though.
I found this site (PLEASE scroll down to the bottom of the screen and watch the 2 videos, they're each about 7 minutes long) .... http://www.orthotropics.com/#
So for any of you who have young children, please take note that NOW is the time to act if their growth is taking an unfavorable direction. You would know that by measuring them. The last paragraph at the bottom of this page entitled "Where should the teeth be?" http://www.orthotropics.com/patients_parents/parents_earlysigns.html
My oldest daughter (who has been eating a nutrient dense diet for 5 years now) is 13. It seems most of her growth is done already so we missed out on using it as a guide for favorable growth of down and forward (as well as outward) of the jaws and palate. However they are willing to treat her in order to correct her class III mallocclusion aka underbite, with whatever little growth she does have left.... as well as lateral expand her palate. She has worn the appliance in conjunction with forward pulling protraction gear for 5 weeks now. We went for an adjustment appointment 2 days ago and they told us to STOP!!!! They didn't expect so much movement. The projected treatment time was 4 months to a year. It was 5 weeks
I have heard that people who eat nutrient dense diets have faster movement.... but ..... this was crazy. She's not done yet though, they're giving her a little break on wearing the protraction gear, but in about a week or 2 she's going to have to put it back on. The expansion is DONE though.