With the end of the year approaching, it is time to make sure you take advantage of the dental benefits that you have invested into your child’s dental insurance policy. On average, the yearly maximum is renewed every calendar [...]
Why is important to know if your child is snoring? Is their face developing correctly? Does their airway have the anatomical support needed? Why the initiative to create the Facial and Airway Development Center? Nothing is more beautiful than [...]
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE SPECIALTIES OF: Pediatric Dental Medicine, Sleep Medicine & Orthodontics Dr. Rishita Jaju, specialist in pediatric dentistry gives Dr. Calkins and our community her insight into the relationship between sleep-disordered breathing, pediatric dentistry and the specialty [...]
Craniofacial Orthopedics’ Role. As member of the Northern Virginia Airway Group, Dr. Calkins, Specialist in Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopedics, focuses on the correct function, growth and development of the craniofacial complex. In Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), a decrease in the [...]
The gradual wasting away of the body over the course of decades is not a necessary or normal component of aging. Rather, it is the natural outcome of a lifetime of unenlightened choices. Through unhealthy choices you may actually [...]
What is the connection with Early Orthopedic and/or Orthodontic Intervention? As parents we see our little ones with lips of her face separated at rest or while they sleep. The first indication of mouth breathing is when a child [...]
Dr. Rishita Jaju of Smile Wonders annually opens the doors of her Reston-area pediatric dental practice every February to host Give Kids a Smile® Day and to provide free dental care to those in need. This is one of [...]
Do you hear your child snoring at night with pauses, snorts or gasps? Heavy Breathing while sleeping? Very restless sleep and sleeping in unusual positions? Does your child have shortness of breath? Daytime sleepiness or behavioral problems? Bed wetting [...]
the Standard of Care at Sunrise Orthodontics “Myo” is the medical prefix that stands for muscle. Orafacial Myofunctional Therapy, then, involves identifying and eliminating harmful habits or disorders relating to the muscles of the tongue, cheek, lips and jaw [...]
When you step in to the Let’s Smile Dental office at Fairfax Corner, the first thing you notice is the friendly, warm, and happy environment. It’s hard not to feel captivated by the creative decoration of the office. A [...]
