Bill HangDental Practitioner, Lecturer at OrthO2Health

The Case for Holistic Orthodontics - William M. Hang DDS MSD

30 Dec 2012 · 1 min

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In this segment of his seminar, Dr. William Hang emphasizes the value of learning from his audience, noting that many participants possess expertise beyond his own. He recounts a former student who introduced him to a Chinese medicine text on facial diagnosis, which claims that a receding jawline signals misfortune, premature aging, or even early death. Dr. Hang connects this ancient observation to modern understanding, explaining that a retruded jaw and tongue can narrow the airway, increasing the risk of sleep apnea. He highlights that this insight is not new but has been long known, underscoring the holistic perspective that facial structure reflects systemic health.

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I learn a lot from the people who take this seminar. I am very fortunate to have very smart people who come and take this seminar from me, and I'm bright enough to listen to them and learn from them as well. There are a lot of you right in this room, I'm absolutely certain, who know a lot more about a lot of other things than I do, and I'm happy to have you put input in here with that. One of my previous students is a gal from up in the Bay Area, and she gave me a book on Chinese medicine, which talks about how to read the face. And you look at the face, and you can, you can tell certain things just by looking at the face. And so, in ancient Chinese medicine, they said, a receding jawline is one sign of misfortune, old age, or it can even be a sign of premature death. From ancient Chinese medicine. Now, they didn't— I look at this and say, really? Think about that. Why would people with a receding jawline die early? Their jaw is back, their tongue is back, their airway is compromised, they're more likely to have sleep apnea. Makes perfect sense, and yet it's been hidden. There really is nothing new. It's been out there for a long, long time.