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Food For Thought

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In the past year or so, as we learn to help our patients with sleep apnea, I got more and more interested in cranial facial development.  The shape of the face, shape of the jaw, and alignment of teeth, do have repercussions throughout the body.  We have noticed people with crowded lower teeth, enlarged tongue for the space, chronic mouth breather - all tend to have smaller airways, which in turn led to compromised breathing and other chronic health issues. During the holidays, we visited the MET museum in NYC.  The mummy of Nesmin (see below) caught my eye.  Armed with new knowledge of cranial development and eyes to spot abnormality, I noticed the CT scan of the mummy almost 2400 years ago, had enough arch space for ALL four 3rd molars.  His teeth were perfectly aligned with some wear.  Scientist determined that Nesmin was a middle-aged man.  In ancient Egypt where there was likely NO DENTAL FLOSS, NO ORTHODONTIST, NO DENTIST, how did a middle age man managed to keep all of his