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Ep 324: Exploring Airway Health in Dentistry: Insights from Meggie Graham, DDS & Liz Turner, DMD

16 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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This is a conversational excerpt from a YouTube episode (Ep 324) about airway health in dentistry focusing on pediatric sleep-disordered breathing and airway-focused dental treatments. Speakers emphasize that parents now have more knowledge to choose airway-preserving approaches (expansion over extraction) and share an anecdote: Hallie Bulkin describes her 4-year-old daughter treated with an ALF appliance whose tonsils were gone within 3 months and whose adenoids and sinuses improved (noted clear sinuses a year later), avoiding adenotonsillectomy.

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4 years old.

Within 3 months.

About one year later.

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All we're trying to do as parents is do better for our children because we have more knowledge we know more now about the impacts of sleep disorder breathing we know more now about expansion vs extraction use what we have today and make positive change Just because somebody didn't have something 30 years ago doesn't mean they have it be accessible now so we're just trying to be better for our children I guess that's kind of what I always am thinking about but.
Yeah well and I love highlighting for families too and I have really great before and after CBCT from my daughter was 4 and she just did the alf appliance her tonsils were gone within 3 months her adenoids and her sinuses cleared like adenoids shrunk down sinuses were clear a year later it phenomenal changes like that would she would have been a kid who was a candidate for adenotoxillectomy and we didn't have to go through with the procedure she still has her whole immune system intact.