A lot of what follows in this book is an explanation of how crowded teeth, bad bites, and big tonsils occur as a result of the general and common smallness of our jaws. Permanently making small jaws a normal size is a well-documented and scientifically supported fundamental and permanent cure for OSA. Corrective jaw surgery is designed to work whether you are in deep supine sleep or wide awake, breathing heavily and running on a treadmill. By curing people of breathing difficulties, such as snoring, or of the risk or presence of OSA, the jaw correction surgeon is also helping to prevent a range of other diseases that are very commonly associated with OSA.
Very fundamentally, maxillofacial surgeons are not sleep physicians. We are jaw correction surgeons. We are not here to treat an AHI score or to compete against CPAP or snoring splints or ENT surgeons wanting to remove tonsils. As jaw surgeons, we are not treating what the obstructions are causing. Instead we are treating what causes the obstructions We want to change the collective story. The summation of the airway anatomy, apneic episodes, snoring, daytime tiredness, and all the other potentialities of the problem.
As surgeons, we are not treating what the obstructions are causing. Instead we are treating what causes the obstructions.
Unlike sleep physicians, we do not have Band-Aid cures. And unlike ENT surgeons, we are not wanting to take bits and pieces away. We are not here to remove the furniture from the room. Everything we do is about making the room bigger to help patients keep all their anatomical furniture. And to keep patients living better and more healthily, and hopefully for a much longer period of time—free of the common diseases we usually associate with abnormal aging.
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