Lansdowne Dental Care Adds New Procedures
Lansdowne Dental Care Adds New Procedures Health Lansdowne Dental Care, a highly specialized cosmetic and general dentist office in Leesburg, now offers additional procedures. The dental office recently announced that it offers new areas of procedural focus in children’s airway health including orofacial myofunctional therapy and Myobrace. Children’s airway health problems include conditions like sleep apnea, which can cause high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke. Defects of the mouth, throat or jaw structure that may occur during childhood often contribute to these problems. Addressing the problems sooner than later helps patients avoid future health problems. Dentists can treat obstructive sleep apnea, the more common type of sleep apnea, by using oral appliances to help adjust the tongue and mandible’s position so that the airway stays open. They cannot diagnose children’s airway issues but can provide treatment including myofunctional therapy or orthodontic...