Episode #21 - The Great Awakening in Restorative Dentistry with Dr. DeWitt Wilkerson
Summary: <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. DeWitt Wilkerson is here today to talk about one of the most controversial topics in all of dentistry. It’s the great awakening in restorative dentistry. It’s also a great opportunity and dentistry. We affectionately call Dr. DeWitt Wilkerson Witt. Him him he had the pleasure of meeting Peter Dawson before he attended dental school. He then attended Dr. Dawson seminars and read his book before dental school.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After becoming a dentist, Witt joined Dr. Dawson’s practice in 1982. Witt is an experienced clinician and teacher. He takes the fundamentals laid out by Peter Dawson and takes them one step further. A lot of dentists today, are focusing on taking patients who have sleep apnea and getting them off of the CPAP machine and onto using a dental appliance. What we are calling the great awakening is realizing that sleep apnea is only a small part of oxygen utilization.</span></p><br> <p><strong>You can find Witt here:</strong></p><br> <p><a href="http://dupontwilkerson.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">DuPont & Wilkerson Dentistry</span></a></p><br> <p><strong>Show Notes</strong></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[01:40] DeWitt thanks Kirk for the great speech he recently gave. He spent his entire Sunday trying to implement Kirks suggestions.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[02:46] At the age of 24, Kirk's whole life was changed after listening to Peter Dawson speak.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[03:29] Witt was friends growing up with Peter Dawson. Peter Dawson gave Witt his textbook and invited him to three of his seminars. Witt read the book and attended the seminars before going to dental school.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[05:13] He has seen it all from classical occlusion to TMJ disorders.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[05:28] What I want to talk about today is all of the concepts that we've learned and that Pete has helped us master and expand on that. </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[05:37] When we talk about the great awakening in most restorative dentistry, what I'm thinking about is oxygen. Sleep apnea is only a small part of this bigger fundamental.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[06:33] Breathing, airway, sleep apnea, and craniofacial development are huge. Airways are critical to health.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[07:20] Airway function directly relates to occlusion, craniofacial development, TMJ and sleep apnea.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[07:27] How the airway is important even before birth. After birth it is huge.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[09:48] From birth to nine years old is a key time of development with breathing and breathing problems.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[10:19] Young fit females were diagnosed with upper airway resistance syndrome. This means that they couldn't breathe through their nose easily. Their symptoms were things like waking up with a headache and having daily fatigue.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[13:15] The third category is the fat old man category. If someone looks like they have sleep apnea it could be an airway problem.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[14:54] Archway retraction can lead to airway problems.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[15:54] Dental malocclusions are a more recent phenomena.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[18:04] Breathing through the mouth creates a more narrow arch form.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[18:35] Epigenetics is the environmental changes on genetics.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[20:14] Everything in our body has a purpose, and breathing through our nose filters air and releases nitric oxide.</span></p>
