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#104 – Daniel Grafton – Choosing the Right Airway Treatment Without Guesswork (CFD Explained)
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- Mar 23, 2026
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Summary
Daniel Grafton is a public health specialist with the UN who taught himself computational fluid dynamics (CFD) after 9 soft tissue surgeries failed to fix his sleep-disordered breathing. In this episode, Daniel runs CFD on Ron's pre and post-MSE CBCTs, revealing pressure maps, velocity data, wall shear stress, and turbulence patterns a standard CBCT cannot show. Daniel Grafton https://www.remetrics.org/ https://www.instagram.com/rem_rebel https://www.youtube.com/@REMRebel 1:1 Coaching with Ron (Now Inside The Joint) https://jawhacks.com/coaching JawHacks Newsletter (Substack) https://substack.com/@jawhacks And More on the Website https://jawhacks.com/ Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:48 - UARS since childhood, 9 surgeries: How desperation led him to CFD 00:05:25 - Why patients who shop for their own treatment often out-know their doctors 00:06:36 - What CFD actually is and what it reveals that CBCT, rhinomanometry, and DICE can't 00:13:01 - CFD origins: aerospace, nuclear reactors, and the Navier-Stokes equation 00:17:33 - How CFD entered sleep medicine and where it stands clinically today 00:20:44 - CFD variables explained: pressure, velocity, turbulence, wall shear stress, and heat flux 00:26:54 - Wall shear stress as a degenerative force: why airway soft tissue relapse after surgery 00:30:53 - Heat flux and Empty Nose Syndrome: the thermal neurons that tell your brain you're breathing 00:35:21 - Case overview: Ron's CBCT anatomy and why head posture corrupts scan data 00:47:21 - Superimposition reveal: Ron's pre vs. post-MSE skeletal changes side by side 00:55:05 - Posterior expansion: does MSE actually widen the back of the nose near the PNS? 00:58:18 - The pterygomaxillary disjunction problem: how some surgical cuts eliminate posterior expansion 01:03:02…