This refers to a condition where the upper jaw is narrow.
Some signs of this are upper crowded front teeth and/or the side and back teeth biting inside of the lower teeth, on one or both the right and left sides.
With a narrow jaw, the smile appears narrow rather than broad and spaces can be seen on the side of the smile, rather than where the teeth should be.
Why does a Narrow Jaw need to be corrected?
The upper jaws are connected with the nose and in children with narrow upper jaws, the nose passage is smaller. A common reported problem from parents, is their child tends to breathe through the mouth, or snore at night, or wake up in the morning with a dry mouth due to mouth breathing.
Narrow jaws can be one of the causes of heavy mouth breathing- which in a child, can change.
There is a window of time where the upper jaw bones and their connections have not hardened in a child and early teen, where the upper jaw can widened effectively without surgery.
What are the treatment options?