Best options for widening jaw? (Photos)

There are multiple options for expansion of the maxilla in teens and adults. I strongly Recommend the DNA Appliance as the best non-surgical Three Dimensional Expansion. The DNA Appliance utilizes Epigenetic Orthopedics to gently expand the jaws. The DNA Appliance is worn 14-16 hours/day.

The RNA Appliance is FDA approved as a sleep apnea (MAD) appliance and it grows utilizing Epigenetic Orthopedics while simultaneously holding the airway open. Unlike other appliances that only hold the airway open the RNA has the potential to grow the airway pneumopedically and to cure sleep apnea.

The SARPE procedure, or Surgical Assisted Rapid Palatal Expansion is also successful and making the maxilla wider without true 3 dimensional Growth.

The MSK is newer and uses orthodontic implans in the hard palate.

Ira L Shapira DDS, D,ABDSM, D,AAIPM, FICCMO, MICCMO
Past Chair, Alliance of TMD Organizations
Diplomat, Academy of Integrative Pain Management
Diplomate, American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine
Diplomate, American Board Sleep and Breathing
Regent, Master & Fellow, International College of CranioMandibular Orthopedics

Board Eligible, American Academy of CranioFacial Pain
Professor Neuromuscular Orthodontics and CranioMandibular Orthopedics University of Castellon
Dental Section Editor, Sleep & Health Journal
CranioFacial Pain Section Editor, CRANIO: Journal of Craniomandibular and Sleep Practice
Member, American Equilibration Society

Member, Academy of Applied Myofunctional Sciences
Member, Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry
Life Member, American Dental Association