HealthyStart in Amarillo, TX

At Austin & Tatum Dental, managing our patient’s airway, growth, and development needs are a top priority. We have chosen to partner with HealthyStart to achieve amazing results. From habit correction to comprehensive orthodontic treatment, HealthyStart is a robust and well-established system that achieves incredible results.

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What is HealthyStart?

The HealthyStart® System is a non-invasive, drug-free, pain-free approach to opening the airway and straightening teeth WITHOUT braces. Backed by 54 years of research and used by over 4 million children worldwide, it offers more than traditional aligners without the high cost of braces.

Through a series of appliances, HealthyStart® targets symptoms of Sleep Disordered Breathing that often go undiagnosed and worsen over time. By addressing these issues early, the system helps guide natural, healthy development.

Nearly everyone! Individuals who begin treatment in their early years will benefit most. Here is an example of a patient’s experience:

 

A 6 ½ year old boy in 2nd grade snored regularly, was a night mouth-breather, was hyperactive, had attention deficit, poor school performance, restless sleep, aggression toward peers, sleep walking and talking, poor ability to study and bed wetting. He was given a Healthy Start “C” series and wore it only at night for 2 years. He immediately stopped snoring and only breathed through the nose while sleeping. His mathematics achievement had a 950% improvement (from the 6th to 57th percentile) and had a 3.84 grade point average (out of 4.0) at the end of 4th grade. Most of his behavioral problems were non-existent at the end of the 2 year period.

Prevention, Prevention, Prevention!

 

The HealthyStart system improves airway patency and decreases or completely eliminates symptoms of Sleep Disordered Breathing, especially if the system is utilized during the patient’s early years.

 

Complex problems identified during a patient’s adolescent and adult years can often be contributed to undiagnosed and untreated airway problems.

 

How can HealthyStart help our patients at Austin & Tatum Dental?

The central issue for many children suffering from the effects of Sleep Disordered Breathing is a compromised airway. When a child's airway is narrow, underdeveloped, or constricted in any way, the child will struggle to receive enough oxygen at night and may resort to mouth breathing to compound the issue.

The HealthyStart® System opens the airway by bringing the upper and lower jaws forward, allowing for maximum airflow, aiding in the improvement of Sleep Disordered Breathing symptoms. Our system also has the ability to encourage mid-face growth and airway development. 

The width of the airway worsens over time if not treated, making it increasingly challenging for a child not only to breathe but also to live their day-to-day lives comfortably. The HealthyStart® System can open up the airway and improve airway width, while encouraging nasal breathing and ensuring that children are able to live happy and healthy lives.

Habit Correction

Improper tongue posture, improper swallowing, tongue thrusts, thumb sucking, and mouth breathing are a few of the abnormal habits that the HealthyStart system addresses using the Habit Corrector appliance. These habits can cause deleterious effects to your child’s growth and development.

The Habit Corrector appliance is a simple yet precisely designed removable appliance that helps resolves these habits. We almost always utilize a Habit Corrector as the first appliance for our patients.

 

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Is HealthyStart a replacement for traditional orthodontics?

No. However, patients who utilize the complete HealthyStart system from an early age often do not require any traditional orthodontics like brackets and wires or clear aligners. How neat is that?! Some patients with significant orthodontic or skeletal abnormalities may still require some degree of traditional orthodontics.

After Habit Correction is completed, most patients transition to the HealthyStart orthodontic guidance phase. This approach utilizes the principle of guiding the erupting permanent teeth into proper position. In comparison, traditional orthodontics forces already erupted teeth into proper position. One of the benefits of the HealthyStart system is that orthodontic retention, like plastic retainers, are often not needed after treatment is completed!

Make sure to see a few before and after images below as a visual of what this system can do!

Improving quality of life by addressing airway problems

Our primary focus is to improve the overall health of the individual being treated with the HealthyStart system. However, we’ve discovered that everyone surrounding the HealthyStart patient can benefit! Behavior improvement, academic success, and compliance improvement are all benefits of the HealthyStart system.

The multitude of benefits abound!

The cascade of benefits from utilization of the HealthyStart system is truly remarkable. While not every individual will experience complete resolution of all associated local and systemic problems, many of our patients do!

The list of benefits goes on and on! We encourage you to visit the HealthyStart website to learn more about what we can do for you or your child: https://www.thehealthystart.com/sleep-disordered-breathing

Witness the Power of HealthyStart

Please view the links below to get a glimpse of the successes that are possible with your child. These before and after images are provided by the HealthyStart company.

Explore the possibilities

Current research is showing us just how important airway management is in our children’s growth and development. If compliance is successful, your child should experience multiple life-changing results from the HealthyStart system!

Frequently Asked Questions About Sedation Dentistry in Amarillo, TX

Perfectly aligned baby teeth do not provide enough room for the larger permanent teeth to erupt into the space left by the loss of the smaller teeth. Many times, the permanent tooth will have to rotate in order to fit. The HealthyStart system guides the eruption of the permanent tooth into a predetermined slot in the HealthyStart appliance, ensuring that it comes in straight but also allows the natural expansion of the arch. An additional benefit occurs by allowing the incoming teeth to grow in straight; the fiber bundles that anchor the permanent teeth into the mouth means that there will be minimal or no relapse of the permanent teeth – the permanent teeth have grown in straight.

The most severe health risks have to do with cardiovascular problems, high blood pressure, hypertrophy of the right side of the heart, low blood flow to the lungs, depression, poor physical growth and speech problems.

Children with moderate (19.8% of children) and severe (13.8%) sleep problems are 12.1 times more likely to have ADD/ADHD.

No they do not; they tend not to improve, and they can get even worse with increasing age.

Mathematics, science and spelling show significant improvement while reading and writing are usually not affected.

Schedule a HealthyStart Visit in Amarillo, TX

There’s no better time than now. Early intervention allows for the most significant results.

A sleep questionnaire is utilized to identify active sleep disordered breathing symptoms. Based on these findings, the Austin and Tatum team will develop a customized plan for your child.

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