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Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic

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Chapter 4 delves into how the perception of facial beauty is directly influenced by how well your facial bones develop. It’s no wonder that for the most part, elite athletes have relatively “attractive” faces which stem from more fully developed facial structures and dental development. This leads to more optimal breathing during the day as well as at night, potentially leading to higher levels of endurance or physical abilities. Jaws makes it clear that crooked teeth are only the tip of the iceberg, and not just a cosmetic problem. With an estimated 50 to 70% of children in the US needing braces, this truly is an epidemic that’s hidden under the surface of our medical and dental system’s level of awareness. Dentists should encourage “forwardontics,” a program focused on keeping the airway open, through sets of exercises designed to correct jaw “posture.” We have learned that how one’s jaws and tongue are held when not eating or talking is key to healthy jaw development.

This manuscript looks beyond the flashy smile that so many of us pay our orthodontists for and asks the hard question: Why is it we are almost all born with the faces of angels, yet so few maintain that face value of our innate and inborn beauty? The answer revealed is intriguing, thought provoking and a much needed call to action to fight for the fullest physical potential for all our children. A must read!" Author: Simon Wong, BDSc. Source: London School of Facial Orthotropics Dr. Kahn is a graduate of the University of Mexico and the University of the Pacific. She has 25 years of clinical experience in orthodontics and is part of craniofacial anomalies teams at the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford University. She can be reached at forwardontics.com. The symptoms of the epidemic of smaller jaws are everywhere. Children are walking around with their mouths open, unable to close them. Adults are snoring. Teenagers are having their misnamed “wisdom” teeth extracted, sometimes with traumatic results. And so many people now have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) that sterilizers for continuous positive airway pressure machines are being advertised on television. The new study builds upon a book Ehrlich co-wrote with orthodontist and lead study author Sandra Kahn entitled Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic, published by Stanford University Press in 2018. Two other Stanford researchers, Robert Sapolsky and Marcus Feldman, have contributed their expertise to the new study. Seng-Mun “Simon” Wong, a general dentist in private practice in Australia, was also a co-author. Rooted in lifestyle, not genetics So how did these two scientists decide to write a book about this unrecognized epidemic? It started as a dinner club; Sandra and Paul and our respective partners, David and Anne, would meet for dinner in Palo Alto at one of several quality establishments every few weeks. The goal was to enjoy some good wine, good food, and good conversation about nature conservation, about how the world was a mess, and to wonder whether it was too far gone to save. It was during these dinners that Sandra started recounting to Paul and Anne a personal journey in her profession as an orthodontist. It was such a striking story, and of so much interest to Paul, that it culminated in his suggesting that they should write a book about it together. Sandra couldn’t believe that someone as published as Paul (with more than 50 books and 1,000 articles to his credit) would be interested in her work, but it was exactly her work that he found so interesting, the fact that something so life changing and dangerous was literally right under our noses and we didn’t see it. Paul had written a book or two on the same sort of life-changing issues, such as reproduction and racism, but this would be the first one that looked at such an issue from the fresh viewpoint that Sandra brought to the table.

Image 8. The child on the left was told that she needed surgery to correct her receding chin. Orthotropic treatment with Biobloc and posture exercises produced the dramatic stable results in the right. Orthodontics or orthopedics is not known to produce any jaw changes remotely as impressive as these. (Courtesy of John Mew.) All that is required is to know that jaws have continued to shrink over that past few centuries (say, 20 generations), and there is no evidence that small-jawed individuals are out-reproducing large-jawed individuals are any rate, let alone the high selection pressure that would be required to produce a discernable change in such an eyeblink of evolutionary time. Indeed, if one were to speculate on selection pressures, we think the best guess would be that, considering sleep apnea and the traumas associated with the removal of wisdom teeth, that biological selection pressures would favor larger jaws. This epidemic has important consequences for heart health. I'm delighted Jaws is bringing it home to both citizens and health care professionals." Author: Dr. John S. Schroeder, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine Source: Stanford University

Anthropologists have long noted the significant differences between the jaws and teeth in modern skulls compared to pre-agricultural, hunter-gatherer humans from thousands of years ago. The differences are stark even compared to humans who lived as recently as a century-and-a-half ago during pre-industrial times. These bygone humans showed little teeth crowding, impaction of their wisdom teeth (a leading reason for their surgical removal nowadays) or malocclusion – the abnormal positioning of the upper and lower teeth when the mouth is closed. When mothers can nurse, many cannot do it for long enough, or they may pump their breast milk and have a caregiver deliver it through a bottle. They recognize this is excellent for the child’s nutrition, but nursing directly from the breast exercises the jaw muscles. Having milk poured into their mouths from a bottle, not so much.In a new co-authored book, biologist Paul Ehrlich describes the connection between underdeveloped jaws, modern life and myriad health and quality-of-life issues. (Image credit: L.A. Cicero) Assuming that genetics are chiefly responsible for the sudden modern rise of these dental maladies does not make sense, said Ehrlich. “There’s not been enough time for evolution over the span of only several generations to have made our jaws shrink,” said Ehrlich. Nor is there any evidence of selection pressures that would have favored smaller jawed-people producing more offspring – and thus perpetuating the trait – than regular-jawed people. While new studies and books are making headlines about the rising epidemic of poor sleep, none have examined its startling relationship with poor jaw development until now. Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic uncovers this serious, mounting, but virtually unknown public health crisis.

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