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Your child’s face will grow based on three things. In his usual resting mouth posture…

Are the teeth together? Are the lips together? Is the tongue on the roof of the mouth?

With this normal oral posture, the face and teeth will grow optimally. Without this normal oral posture, the face will not grow properly, and any orthodontics will be less stable.

In the video below you will see time lapse (morphs) that show changes in facial structure over a period of several years. Compare the changes in patients who were treated with traditional techniques that pull teeth backwards in the face and/or extractions to the patients who were treated with the non-extraction appliances like those used by Dr Neal C. Murphy.
Call Dr. Murphy’s office to learn more at: 818-905-5050

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Premature and injudicious extraction of bicuspid teeth has a retarding effect on facial growth the way damage to the growth plate limits the growth of legs. A serious injury in a growing child.

Stem-Cell-Therapy-for-Orthodontists and Periodontists:

This chapter is about Professor EO Wilson’s Consilience: the Unity of  Knowledge – it synthesizes periodontics and orthodontics, academics and practice, making the ideal practical. The dental specialties, divided by culture, are inseparable in science and justified by art, like the relationship between architects and structural engineers. The interface between these two disciplines focuses on two aspects: what can orthodontics do for periodontology and what can periodontics do for orthodontics? This chapter first reviews salient points of joint management that may have eluded prior papers on the subject and go into some more depth. So orthodontists can use periodontal knowledge and periodontists can answer the needs of the orthodontist. Safe methods of recognizing and avoiding attachment loss are described along with the use of asymmetric eruption when using forced eruption or molar uprighting. The concept of bone morphing is introduced and a rationale is presented that explains gingival recession as a bacterial infection, not tooth movement complication.
Finally, a method of quantizing infection, probing efficiently, and assigning infection control management tips is briefly and succinctly presented.

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Before and After Photos…

Alveolus Development for broader smiles and more esthetic facial development. This is not stable if done rapidly and non-surgically. It is however more stable if dentoalveolar surgery is employed (Wilckodontics TM) or the supporting bone is enlarged naturally through tissue engineering and facial growth guidance. (Williams Method)

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A Critical History and Commentary
A scientific manuscript submitted for publication in the journal
Seminars in Orthodontics

by NEAL C. MURPHY DDS, MS*, Clinical Professor
Departments of Periodontics & Orthodontics
Case Western Reserve University
School of Dental Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio USA 44106

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A “Whole Bone” Approach to Dentofacial Orthopedics

and Falsification of Universal Alveolar Immutability

 A Manuscript submitted for publication in the  American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics

 July 4, 2007

 by  Neal C. Murphy, DDS, MS ^1.2

Associate Clinical Professor,

Department of Periodontology & Affiliated Skeletal Research Center

Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine

Cleveland, Ohio USA

 Lecturer, Sections of Orthodontics

 UCLA School of Dentistry

Los Angeles, CA  USA

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CV – CURRICULUM VITAE -ABBREV. FOR NIH IDE GRANT

Dr. Neal C. Murphy has been involved in dental education for over 25 years. He has taught at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, his alma mater, the University of Southern California , USC.  From 1981-2010 Dr. Murphy was involved deeply in educational activities at UCLA  and served three terms as President of the UCLA Orthodontic Alumni Association.