Breathe Better
DOME zero/DOME mini expands the palate, improves nasal breathing and creates a beautiful smile without ever getting large teeth gaps.
Sleep Better
Improved nasal breathing and airway performance means more deep restorative sleep and less tossing, turning and snoring.
Feel Better
People who sleep better, feel better. DOME zero/DOME mini results in a comfortable bite with less teeth clenching and jaw tension.
Synchronized Palatal Expansion and Clear Aligners
DOME zero/DOME mini are airway-focused treatment protocols designed to expand the palate, improve nasal breathing, and create a healthy, DOME-shaped palate - without large gaps or bulky appliances.
- Improves Nasal Breathing
- Enhances Sleep Quality
- Creates a DOME-Shaped Palate
- Synchronized Expansion & Clear Aligner Treatment
- Creates a Beautiful Smile
- Balanced Bite & TMJ Harmony
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Orthodontics That Improves Breathing, Sleep, and Facial Balance
DOME zero/DOME mini are designed for adults and kids with narrow, high-vaulted palates who struggle with nasal breathing, sleep quality, clenching, or crowding.
By creating a DOME-shaped palate and aligning the teeth at the same time, DOME zero/DOME mini improve airway function, support proper tongue posture, and deliver a healthier, more comfortable smile — all in one coordinated treatment.
How DOME zero/DOME mini Work
DOME zero/DOME mini create a larger “DOME-shaped” space in the palate. The DOME concept was invented by Dr. Stanley Liu who recognized that people with a “DOME-shaped” palate (vs a high-vaulted palate) have larger nasal airways, more tongue space and that they breathe better and sleep better.
DOME zero/DOME mini use Dr. Claudia Pinter’s protocol in planning and synchronizing bone-level palatal expansion and clear aligner orthodontics. DOME zero/DOME mini are the first airway focused treatment to deliver synchronized expansion and orthodontic results into a complete patient solution without getting large teeth gaps.
The DOME zero/DOME mini protocol involves identifying myofunctional problems such as tongue, lip and cheek ties (aka tethered oral tissues). DOME zero/DOME mini incorporates Dr. Gary Adams’ understanding about how orofacial myofunctional problems can contribute to breathing problems, facial asymmetries and cranial-facial underdevelopment. Diagnosing and treating tethered oral tissues is critical to achieving balanced cranial-facial development, optimal head and tongue posture and preventing orthodontic relapse.
DOME zero/DOME mini creates a DOME-shaped palate, delivers a beautiful smile, and aligns the teeth at the same time. But more than that, DOME zero/DOME mini are protocols that helps adults/kids breathe better, sleep better, feel better and smile better. DOME zero/DOME mini involves:
- “Screws-first” customized bandless DOME zereo/DOME mini expander. Bandless expanders are small and usually allow for tongue suction and palatal posture
- Clear aligners move the teeth at the same time the expansion is getting done. Large Palate and No Large Gaps.
- Myofunctional Therapy to strengthen and train the muscles in the airway and tongue. Tongue posture needs to be lightly suctioned onto the palate or the airway will still obstruct.
- Diagnosis and release of tethered oral tissues, including tongue ties, lip ties and buccal ties. The musculature can be the root cause of why our jaws, teeth and faces did not grow correctly to begin with and why we are not breathing properly and clenching our teeth now. TOTs can also contribute to facial asymmetries and head, neck and jaw tension.
- Neutral bite alignment in harmony with the TMJ.