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### HealthyStart® orthodontic treatment for
# children
Do your kids have problems breathing while sleeping? Perhaps they have tongue and speech issues. Our HealthyStart dental program will help them sleep and breathe easily while supporting the healthy growth of their teeth and jaw.
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### What Do Breathing And Sleep Have To Do With
## teeth health
We learn how to breathe properly in our formative years. However, while we are naturally designed to breathe through the nose, children tend to breathe through their mouth when they have allergies, colds, or small nasal passages, making it a habit, especially during sleep. This condition is also known as sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) or sleep apnea.
The result of mouth breathing has dire consequences. Their developing bodies and brains don't get enough oxygen, and their tongue rests in the wrong place in their mouth, causing poor jaw growth and crooked teeth - but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
## More Issues Caused by Mouth Breathing
### Our HealthyStart Dentists In Alexandria, MN Are Ready To Help Your Children Stay Healthy
- Snoring
- Getting up at night
- Daytime tiredness
- ADD/ADHD
- Bedwetting
- Chronic allergies
- Asthma
- Mouth breathing
- Swollen tonsils or adenoids
- Headaches
- Teeth grinding
- Excessive sweating
- Restless sleep
- Nightmares
- Daytime irritability and drowsiness
Dark circles under the eyes
Difficulty in school
### The HealthyStart Dental System Helps Your Little Ones
## breathe easy for good
A HealthyStart dental system is an orthodontic treatment that uses comfortable, removable devices that guide your kids' jaw and tongue into the right position. The result? Proper teeth, jaw, and tongue alignment, possibly without the need for braces or other invasive treatments. The best part? Its results are permanent.
### our approach to a
## **healthy start**
Our HealthyStart dentists in Alexandria, MN will help your child in 3 easy steps!
1.
#### **Create a Custom Device for Habit Adjustment**
The first step of our HealthyStart dental program is creating a custom device for your child to wear at night to kick bad oral habits such as tongue thrusting, teeth grinding and mouth breathing to the curb. Habit adjustment usually lasts between 2-24 months, depending on your child's age, and ensures proper growth and development.
2.
#### **Create A Custom Correction Appliance**
The next step is ensuring new teeth grow into the right position while correcting jaw misalignments using another custom-made HealthyStart appliance. This phase of the treatment, called correction, typically lasts between 2-6 months but depends on your child's growth rate.
3.
#### **Final Alignment Device**
Once your little one has four or more permanent teeth on each arch, our HealthyStart dentists in Alexandria will create an alignment device to accommodate incoming teeth. As a result, **they won't need braces in the future**.
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Wednesday: 8:00 am-4:00 pm
Thursday: 8:00 am-4:00 pm
Friday: 8:00 am-12:00 pm
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Sunday: Closed
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1400 Hawthorne St, STE 2, Alexandria, MN 56308
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