Connecting the dots between dentistry, anthropology, nutrition and airway: Episode 341

The Tongue Tie Experts Podcast

Connecting the dots between dentistry, anthropology, nutrition and airway with Dr. Kevin Boyd.

Topics discussed:

• The development of the shape of the human skull and how it relates to what our ancestors ate
• Evolutionary fitness
• Responsibility for risk assessment for airway disorders
• Recognizing that most of our work in this area was not what we learned in school
• Intellectual curiosity
• Trusting mom's instinct
• Correcting malocclusion before 72 months
• and more...

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Dr. Kevin Boyd is a board certified Pediatric Dentist in Chicago who holds an M.Sc. degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics. He teaches in the Pediatric Dentistry residency training program at Lurie Children’s Hospital and also serves as a dental consultant to the Lurie Sleep Medicine service. Dr. Boyd is an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas mentoring PhD research, and also serves as a Visiting Consulting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archeology and Anthropology where he is collaboratively exploring a hypothetical relationship between changed dietary practices since the Industrial Revolution and diminished human dentofacial development. He lectures worldwide on the topics of Early Childhood Malocclusion (under age 72 months), pediatric sleep-breathing hygiene and Evolutionary Oral Medicine/Darwinian Dentistry.

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Please do not consider anything discussed on this podcast, by myself or any guest of the podcast, to be medical advice. The information is provided for educational purposes only and does not take the place of your own medical or lactation provider.