Healthy Start - Alla Rapoport DDS

Healthy Start for Children

Supporting Healthy Breathing, Sleep, and Development

Learn how Healthy Start may help support healthy breathing, sleep quality, jaw development, and growing smiles.

Healthy Start for Children / Sleep Breathing Disorder

Watch this parent overview to learn more about sleep-disordered breathing, airway health, and how these concerns may affect children.

Healthy Start and Sleep Disordered Breathing

Within the last 20 years, clinical research has established a connection between certain increasingly common childhood health and behavioral symptoms and their root cause — Sleep Disordered Breathing.

Nine out of ten children suffer from one or more symptoms related to Sleep Disordered Breathing.

The Healthy Start System addresses Sleep Disordered Breathing symptoms while straightening your child’s teeth.

Healthy Start provides a non-invasive treatment promoting arch development, beautiful smiles, straight teeth, and a lifetime of healthy breathing.

Does Your Child Exhibit Any of These Symptoms?

These are symptoms listed in the Healthy Start educational material that parents may want to discuss during an evaluation.

ADD / ADHD

Mouth Breathing

Bed Wetting

Snoring

Restless Sleep

Delayed Growth

Nightmares

Allergies

Chronic Allergies

Crowded Teeth

Overbite / Overjet

Dark Circles Under the Eyes

Swollen Adenoids / Tonsils

Aggressive Behavior

Daytime Sleepiness

What Is Healthy Start?

The Healthy Start System is a series of uniquely designed oral appliances that are worn a few hours a day and/or during the night while the child sleeps.

Healthy Start provides a non-invasive treatment promoting arch development, beautiful smiles, straight teeth, and a lifetime of healthy breathing — just as nature intended.

How Healthy Start Can Support Growing Smiles

Healthy Start Case: Overjet

The overjet is corrected by allowing the lower jaw to develop in a forward and downward direction. With the advancement of the lower jaw, the profile of the child improves and the airway is enlarged to create nasal breathing and address sleep disordered breathing.

Healthy Start Case: Crowding

The Healthy Start System guides and corrects the eruption of the incoming teeth by naturally expanding the arch to provide room for these teeth, or can straighten. the teeth that are already present, and develop proper wallowing. This allows for proper breathing, an expanded airway, and straight teeth.

Healthy Start Case: Class III

The Healthy Start System addresses and corrects the Class III by allowing the force of the tongue to move the upper arch in a forward direction. The movement of the jaws in a forward direction opens up the patient’s airway.

The Importance of Your Child’s Airway

The central issue for many children suffering from the effects of Sleep Disordered Breathing is a compromised airway. When a child’s airway is narrow, underdeveloped, or constricted in any way, the child will struggle to receive enough oxygen at night which can result in serious health issues.

Healthy Start is designed to support healthy jaw development and promote proper airway development in growing children.

"My twin daughters had Healthy Start treatment with Alla Rapoport. The service was amazing. The treatment helped with overbite, sleep, and concentration. We are very pleased with this treatment!!!!"

Liliya K

Chatsworth CA

Healthy Start Child Video

Watch an additional Healthy Start video to better understand the experience and potential benefits for children.

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