Bill HangDental Practitioner, Lecturer at OrthO2Health

Kevin Adair DDS MSD - Airway vs Occlusion

26 Jan 2021 · 1 min

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In this brief commentary, Kevin Adair emphasizes the importance of treating both airway concerns and occlusal aesthetics together rather than focusing on a single aspect. He critiques practitioners who simply prescribe an appliance without integrating comprehensive dental planning, warning that such narrow approaches can leave patients with compromised smiles, bites, or even require future jaw surgery. Adair highlights Bill’s practice as an example of balanced care that addresses airway improvement while preserving a functional, attractive bite, and notes that Bill now runs a study club to teach clinicians how to develop complete, integrated treatment plans.

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There's a lot of people that talk about doing the stuff that he does, but they don't really seem to do it the same way. And it's more like they just give an appliance and just say, okay, just use the appliance and you're done. You kind of have to balance the situation. You're trying to help them with an airway issue, but you also need to give them a nice smile and a good bite. You can't just do one and sort of forget about the other. So Bill kind of encompasses both. He's not just treating one aspect. Yes, there's an ideal goal trying to help the airway, but he's not leaving the patient in a terrible situation that they're going to have to recover from with jaw surgery or something like that. The idea is to have one, you know, complete treatment plan, and he's got a study club now that can, that can teach you those things.