Myobrace - Pre Braces Jaw Reshaping Option - Con or Effective?

My daughter's crossbite (narrow upper jaw) was corrected when she was six. They put in a "butterfly"...a metal device attached to her upper molars that had a key I turned at home to widen her pallet. She was done with that in 21 days!!! Less than a month and her jaw was corrected. They left it in place for almost a year but it no longer needed turning.

Then they captured her teeth as they came in and with braces pulled them into place. She had many teeth that would have come in through the roof of her mouth had we not corrected.

Now I have to look at Myobraces to see if we missed out...but what we did worked great and wasn't super expensive.

Your dentist/orthodontist should be able to clearly tell (and show) you whether or not your child has a cross bite from a narrow jaw. If that's what they're telling you, then the device you mentioned wouldn't address that. It's common now to do multi-phase orthodontic work for cross bites. Both of my younger boys needed work done when they were 7-9 years old. One was able to have his under bite mitigated with a system of spring-loaded braces and retainers while the other needed a palate expander. Both will likely need another round of treatment when they're around age 13 and could possibly need additional work at 18. They both inherited under bites from me. Mine wasn't addressed until I was a teenager and my palate expander didn't work so I needed surgery to reduce the size of my lower jaw and pull it under and behind my top teeth.

I just read about Myobrace and I think they over simplify the problem.
There's no WAY a device like that would have had an impact on MY teeth - they were all over the place!
I could fit my thumb between my two top front teeth and a lot of my teeth were sideways.
I had to have 8 adult teeth pulled in order to have room for the rest of my teeth.
It was 7 years of braces - but my smile is great now!
This was 40 years ago.

Our son did some time with the expanders, then only had 2 years of braces.
His teeth are great!
I really think the expanders helped enormously and were relatively painless.

My 6 year old daughter got a bonded expander put in last November. She's to wear it for 6-9 months, we turn the key a certain number of times per the orthodontist (36 times/nights at first, anothef 12 after her 2nd appointment). The difference already is AMAZING! It hasn't really caused her much discomfort and she adjusted to speaking with it pretty quickly. After this, she'll wear a retainer for a few years until it's time for braces. I'm very glad we did it so early, since hef adult teeth have already spread out, instead of starting to stack and overlap, and there is now room for her to lose and get more teeth.

Yeah, I don't believe the claims. Genetics play a very important role in jaw size and teeth size. To say it's all caused by "bad habits" is too far fetched. My son is in the midsts of his orthodontic work. He had a splitter on the top that was cemented in and a retainer on the bottom that also acted as a splitter. He now has room for all adult teeth without needing any of them removed to stop crowding. We are in the stage where they are simply guiding his adult teeth in as they come in and only has a retainer on the top and bottom to keep the spaces open. The place we go to is very into all the newest, latest and greatest and this was never even mentioned as even existing, much less being an option. If the jaw is not big enough, no habits, good or bad are going to correct that the jaw is too small to fit the all the teeth.

I think there are many devices out there that do lots of good things. I know one who wore a...bionator? it looked like a shock absorbed that was connected on top then slanted and connected to the bottom. It's purpose was to expand the bones in one jaw that was too recessed. Another kiddo wore a device in the roof of her mouth and it fit like when you get a plastic spoon caught between teeth on opposite sides. They opened it up a tiny bit at regular intervals. Her top jaw opened up so well! I can tell by looking at her face.

There are many things that can be done. I think there are many many options. You and the doc can make a plan and both feel good about the choices you've made.