About Us
At Breathe Baby Products we are passionate about developing products to support optimal oral and facial development for a lifetime of better health.
We focus on approaches that mimic natural development. It is always preferable to foster ideal palate and facial development from the start rather than attempting to fix problems later in life with expanders, braces, or even surgery.
Study: Maxilla Is the Most Important Bone of the Midface
Key Points
- The maxilla (upper jaw structure) is the most important bone of the midface. It has a central location and provides structural support to all the bones that form the face. It has a fundamental role in facial architecture (how you look), separates the nasal and oral cavities, forms the upper jaw, and contains the maxillary sinus.
- To allow rapid growth an infant’s maxilla contains many sutures (joints) which also make it moldable and malleable.
Our Story
Breathe Baby Products began in 2012 when Dr. Samandari, current president of the American Dental Association in Arizona, started studying the global problem of sleep apnea and related breathing disorders. To date almost all treatment has focused on attempts to fix mature maxilla (palate) deformations. Dr. Samandari’s goal was to find practical ways to prevent these problems in the first place.
Study: Rapid Maxillary Expansion Benefits for Children with a Narrow Maxilla
Key Points
- Children at high risk for sleep-disordered breathing are characterized by reduced airways, a misaligned bite, and narrower jaws. All of which can lead to a reduced quality of life.
- In the short term, rapid maxillary expansion might aid in improvement of the quality of life for children with a narrow maxilla (jaw) in the milder end of the sleep-disordered breathing spectrum.
Dr. Samandari
Dr. Sam’s Breakthrough
Dr. Samandari says, “I researched many scholars like Dr. Weston Price and Dr. John Mew, dentists who published seminal observations. They hypothesized why modern post-industrial cultures suffer with apnea in ways that aboriginal cultures don’t. They proposed that aboriginal mothers relied heavily on breastfeeding their children for many years. They didn’t have bottles, pacifiers, or sippy cups. Conversely, in modern cultures, mothers are not breastfeeding their babies as long and are dependent on the ubiquitous bottles, pacifiers, and sippy cups. We have now come to learn that breastfeeding is a valuable face-shaping activity for babies.”
Study: Breastfeeding And the Development of Maxillaries in Infants
Key Points
- Breastfeeding is related to an adequate growth and development of the upper and lower jaws and a good relationship between them.
- Breastfeeding is way to prevent the development of future dental problems.
A Revolutionary Solution
The question that drove Dr. Samandari was how to develop pacifiers, bottle nipples, and sippy cups that mimic the natural and positive palate and facial forming effects of breastfeeding. He formed a partnership with the Arizona State University Science and Technology Centers to exhaustively test currently available products and new designs with both real world bench testing and sophisticated computerized finite element analysis. The research resulted in multiple discoveries and innovations in pacifier and bottle nipple design so unique and effective that Breathe Baby Products has been granted patents in countries around the world.
100% of the babies who were never breastfed but used the Breathe Pacifier in the preliminary study demonstrated palate development virtually identical to the babies in the study that were 100% breastfed since birth.
Proven Results
Prototypes of these new designs have been utilized in an initial Doctor Supervised Research Study with babies and the results are remarkable. Every baby in the study received a full mouth scan every three months to assess palate development. Even more dramatic were the examples of babies around a year of age who came into the study with extremely narrow vaulted palates. After just a few months of consistently using the Breathe Pacifier, the palates of these babies had widened and flatted to virtually ideal proportions. This rapid improvement is possible because the palates of babies are soft, malleable bone until around the age of five. This is why it is so important to ensure that only things that will support ideal palate formation and shape are allowed into a child’s mouth until around the time they start school.
Another common problem Dr. Samandari addressed is that most parents don’t use the correct-sized pacifier as their baby’s face grows. Often, they keep using the same-sized pacifier as when baby was first born. This is why Breathe Pacifiers come in four sizes to ensure the optimum size as baby grows.
Muscular and negative pressures from the suckling forces on the infant palate can force the palate to narrow and adapt to the size and shape of a too small pacifier or nipple head inside. The potential of these issues to cause long-term damaging effects on babies’ mid-faces is why many pediatric physicians recommend parents stop traditional pacifier use by age one.
Study: Conformity between Pacifier Design and Palate Shape
Key Points
- A prerequisite for an anatomically correct pacifier is an age-appropriate size, which corresponds to the natural growth process of the child’s palate.
- The need for an age-appropriate pacifier dimension is further emphasized by the relationship between palate shape and sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUID). A recent computed tomography and autopsy study of children, who died of SUID at an average age of five months, showed that the SUID group had significantly narrower palates than the control group.
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Parents everywhere now have the option to use pacifiers designed with the goal of encouraging ideal oral and facial structures for a lifetime of better breathing and health.
Study: Breastfeeding And Maxillary Development
Key Points
- Breastfed babies have a better chance of improved oral and dental health than their counterparts that were artificially-fed.
- Breastfeeding has positive effects on the development and physiological integrity of infant’s oral cavity. Breastfed babies have a better chance of improved oral and dental health than their counterparts that were artificially-fed.