On this episode of the Body Literacy Podcast, I’m chatting with Dr. Sandra Kahn, co-author of the book Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic about the importance of proper jaw development for not only oral health but proper airway development and its impacts on all aspects of overall health.
Dr. Kahn is a graduate of the National University of Mexico and the University of the Pacific School of Dentistry in San Francisco. She began her work in orthodontics with a specialty in physical anthropology at the University of California in Berkeley focusing her studies on human craniofacial growth and development.
After 22 years of clinical experience in orthodontics treating thousands of patients, Dr. Kahn was not satisfied with traditional orthodontics as a solution for treating her own children, so in 2013, she retired from “traditional” orthodontics to focus on orthodontics related to creating healthy airways, with a concentration on pediatric prevention of long-term Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
Her approach is to treat the entire face and not just the teeth. Dr. Kahn has been invited to serve on craniofacial anomalies teams at both Stanford University and the University of California in San Francisco.
Dr. Kahn is an international lecturer on the topic of airway centric orthodontics. She is currently the only Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics that practices exclusively Biobloc Orthotropics and airway-centric orthodontics.
