We welcome your family to our third-generation, family-owned "home" SHN Orthodontics for trusted specialty orthodontic care.

SHN Orthodontics is proud to be your family's "home" for advanced, specialty orthodontic care. Our Mission Viejo, California office is proud to be a woman-led, third-generation family practice. Our orthodontist, Dr. Shannon Hilgers Nissen, "grew up" in the family business. Her father started the tradition more than 40 years ago. Dr. Nissen continues the legacy with fun, warm, empowering, inclusive, and genuinely caring orthodontic treatment.

A wide range of quality services sets children on a healthy path. Healthy oral and dentofacial development supports academic performance, restorative sleep, a positive self-image, good chewing function and nutrition, and overall well-being. Anomalies and challenges to development in early childhood are associated with the opposite; airway problems put a tremendous toll on the body's organs and systems and are associated with everything from problems with concentration and behavior to chronic headaches, poor immune function, and speech impediments.