Our goals are: to pay careful attention to the health of your airway; to help you create a more balanced, attractive face; keep your jaw joints functioning well and pain free; and give you straight teeth. His Face Focused® treatment techniques are designed to develop the jaws forward; create better facial balance & more pleasing facial appearance; protect and/or expand the airway; and produce broa
d smiles that are complete to the corners of the mouth. Too often traditional orthodontics produces straight teeth, but ignores or even damages the balance of the face. Dr. Hang recognizes that by respecting the profile and balance of the face, a person's airway is not compromised and often can be improved. A compromised airway can be associated with TMJ problems, headaches, and sleep apnea. Dr. Hang has been reopening previous orthodontic extraction spaces for nearly thirty years. He recognized a very common thread of symptoms for many of these patients. Symptoms include (but are not limited to) 1)TMJ problems, head and neck pain 2) breathing, sleeping, and fatigue problems associated with reduced airways and 3) serious emotional problems brought on by the esthetic and functional problems associated with retraction of teeth in orthodontics. Recognizing these relationships, Dr. Hang identified Extraction Retraction Regret Syndrome™ (E.R.R.S.™) and defines it as:
A constellation of esthetic, functional, and emotional signs and symptoms caused by tongue space/airway reduction from orthodontic retraction…….all of which is preventable. Dr. Hang has developed a number of approaches, including reopening extraction spaces, which may dramatically reduce or eliminate many of these symptoms. Dr. Hang’s goals include educating as many patients, parents and professionals about the benefits of the Face Focused® Philosophy as possible; continuing the development of treatments based on Face Focused® principles for patients of all ages; and teaching these methods to other dentists and orthodontists worldwide through seminars, workshops and mini-residencies.
