patient must lead the treatment, not the doctors.

I’ve felt for a long time that the patient must lead the treatment, not the doctors.

Even the doctors that are practicing enlightened orthodontics, they still will not know the issues as well as you do.

If you leave it up to the doctors 100%, you may pay dearly months, years down the road.

When I went into my first orthodontic appointment at 18 years old, I was told by my doctor that the adult palate is fused and will not expand, so we have to take out 4 adult teeth. And this is not some distant past but in 2008.

and I believed him.

That was 8 years ago.

It has been a long road dealing with that initial assault.

I also learned a valuable lesson, never trust a doctor’s word even if they state it like a fact.

Even with my second treatment I had to push Dr. Gibbs to achieve more aggressive results than what he was willing to settle for, but he is an exception because he is open minded to listen & proceeded with my requests.

Doctors got bills to pay and a business to run, they can’t have the liberty to be so experimental.

Treating CFD (Cranial Facial Dystrophy) is a real challenge, & currently outside the scope of an orthodontist so they turn to jaw surgeons for the fix, but it is hard to trust if that is truly the best solution because these are the same guys that pull out bicuspids, & claim adult bones are set and the palate is fused.

-CP