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Modern life's strain on human skulls

Dr. Raphael and Dr. Stevenson (‪@StevensonDentalSolutions‬) sit down after a weekend airway course to talk about what airway-focused dentistry actually looks like in practice -- and why it can't be reduced to any single appliance or technique. Barry walks through the phenotypic markers clinicians should be watching for in children, starting with the ones that are easy to miss precisely because they've become so common. Baby teeth without spacing, for example, is one of the biggest red flags in pediatric development, and it routinely goes unmentioned by both parents and practitioners. They discuss how the modern environment -- from diet to posture to air quality -- is reshaping craniofacial development faster than our genetics can adapt, and what that means for the kids showing up in our chairs. A big theme in this conversation is the danger of relying on any one tool or philosophy. Barry uses the carpenter metaphor: if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail -- but a carpenter with only a hammer isn't much of a carpenter. The same applies to airway treatment. Myofunctional therapy, palatal expansion, biomimetics, removable trainers -- each has its place, but the real skill is knowing when and how to combine them based on the patient in front of you. They also get into the structure, function, and behavior triad -- the framework at the heart of their teaching -- and why arguing about whether form or function matters more is about as productive as arguing about the chicken and the egg. What matters is the spiral: is it going uphill or downhill? And where can you break into it to start reversing things? Barry outlines the continuum of care, from supporting natural growth in infants all the way through orthognathic surgery, with orthodontics as the final step -- the "window dressing" after the real work is done. He shares a memorable story about 10 Chinese orthodontists whose results with myofunctional trainers surpassed his own, and what that taught him about the role of patient cooperation in behavior-based treatment. Rich reflects on what he observed during the weekend course -- practitioners who arrived thinking in terms of procedures and left thinking in terms of systems. The next Stabilizer Course is March 13-15 for those ready to go deeper.