Archive - JawHacks

5.6 MARPE Asymmetry Problems

If an iPhone is “smart,” then MARPE is dumb. And by dumb, I mean it’s a brute. All it does is go left/right with respect to itself. This means that if…

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November 2024

5.5 MARPE Failure to Split, Molar Tipping and Over-Expansion Problems

All MARPEs are powerful devices that have the potential to permanently deform one’s facial structure to such a degree that only reconstructive jaw…

Nov 25 •

5.4 MARPE Surgical Assists - From Least to Most Invasive

In this chapter we will examine interventions that can reduce resistance of the skull against the MARPE appliance. These surgical assists can range in…

Nov 19 •

5.3 Top MARPE Devices Currently Available

MSE ushered in a new era of skeletal expansion, but has since taken a back seat to Custom MARPE and FME. Custom MARPE has become the workhorse of…

Nov 11

5.2 What All MARPEs Have in Common

MARPE is an umbrella term that covers many individual brands of bone-anchored palatal expanders. To use an analogy, MARPE is like the term “car” and…

Nov 4 •

October 2024

5.1 Intro to MARPE (aka MSE)

MARPE makes the palate wider in the transverse dimension. That means left/right, from ear to ear.

Oct 28 •

September 2024

14 Takeaways from My Dr. Gunson Podcast

Last night I posted my podcast with renowned maxillofacial surgeon Dr. Michael Gunson. So far this interview has the highest average view duration of…

Sep 29 •

Will Ron Have a Double Jaw Surgery?

I have decided to run an experiment to see if I myself am a candidate for double jaw surgery. For the next several weeks I am going to mimic post-jaw…

Sep 8 •

Dr. Newaz on FME vs. Custom MARPE

FME is an evolution from some of what we have now learned are shortcomings in the dimensional-stability-forgiveness built into other kinds of expanders.

Sep 1

August 2024

Dr. Newaz's Talk on Bone-Anchored Expansion - Part 1

How in the world does anyone think expansion is going to be stable in the long-term if the tongue is not acting as a scaffold against the palate to hold…

Aug 25 •

5 Ways to Make Your Jaws as Big as Humanely Possible

In this talk, I surveyed 5 approaches to maximizing three dimensional jaw augmentation that I am seeing done, and that clients regularly ask me to help…

Aug 18 •

Interlude: 2 Correct Ways to Augment the Jaws

There are only 2 legitimate options for artificial expansion in adults. What they have in common is that both target the bone, not the teeth.

Aug 9 •

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