Pediatric airway-focused dentists

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know of any airway-focused dentists for kids in the area, preferably NWDC or MoCo?

[Anonymous]

Post this on the health and medicine board

[Anonymous]

I’ve never heard of this. Assuming your child has issues they already see an ETN for? They would probably be the best resource for a referral.

[Anonymous]

Some of the airway dentist stuff is expensive pseudoscience, so I'd tread carefully and do research from reputable sources as you go so you aren't spending money on stuff that doesn't do anything. It's tricky when you are in the parts of medicine where there are some experimental, not fully proven but promising treatments and also some things that we know don't work but people are still doing them. Speech therapy is another field where this is true.

I would recommend the medical dentists at Children's National. They work together with Children's ENT for my child who has a jaw deformity and sleep apnea. Our (former) regular pediatric dentist was just kind of like "sorry I don't know about anything except your actual literal teeth, which don't have any cavities so you're good!" and the Children's dentists have been much more knowledgeable and competent.

[Anonymous]

Dr. Karen Benitez in Chevy Chase

[Anonymous]

All of the dentists I have ever seen are in favor of patent airways. If yours is not, you have a problem.

[Anonymous]

If you’re someone who thinks that a patent airway is going to be a problem, then you need to go to a practice that has privileges at a hospital with a pediatric sedation unit. It’s the anesthesiologist, not the dentist, who is responsible for the airway. Often with a nasal intubation but not always.

The person up thread, who quoted the dentist saying I just look at the teeth and jaw was correct. The question to ask is who’s your anesthesia practice?

[Anonymous]

Call misty at

https://www.primitivebreathing.com

She's very good.