Dr. Katie To walks through assessing jaw cracking and uneven chewing: checking which side you favor, listening for clicks, evaluating tongue tie, and airway health. The real fix requires both sides working together. Patients who do their home exercises see lasting improvement; those who don't stay stuck.
Some people chewing more on one side than the other. Some people hear some cracking noise in their jaw when they chew. And then also we look at the tongue evaluation. Do you have tongue tie? Do you have any issues with the airway? We evaluate all that. And on top of it, we give them homework. And it is a partnership. If the patient feel like we are the one who do all the work and they don't have to do anything, like in Yangtze, they don't want to see the long-lasting result. But when we partner up with them, we're doing our part when the patient is here and show them what to do when they get home. You can see huge improvement and long-lasting improvement.
