Why is Functional Jaw Orthopedics such a superior way of doing orthodontics?
A. This is an excellent question and could involve a long complicated answer. After all, it took yours truly over 11 years of writing a 3 volume series of major textbooks, each one over 500 pages long, to explain all this to dentists, orthodontists and pedodontists, who spend their whole careers studying this issue. But really, the answer, if you will grant me a little poetic license, can be quite short and easy to understand. Basically the reason the “Functional Jaw Orthopedics” method of doing braces for bad bites is so superior to former, more technically limited treatment methods is that it can often produce much better looking faces for patients and definitely can produce much better temporomandibular joints in many patients suffering from certain types of malocclusion.
