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Let's get your airway strong!
Did you know that you can improve the strength and tone of your tongue and soft palate muscles as well as the throat? Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy helps restore normal function to the muscles of the face and mouth. This may help with many issues including snoring and jaw muscle soreness. Think of it like physical therapy for the muscles of your mouth and face. Every time you speak, chew and swallow, you are using these muscles. Bad habits can create a ripple effect of problems including poor teeth alignment and poor sleep quality.
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Can Myofunctional Therapy Help?
Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders (OMD's) are patterns involving oral and orofacial musculature that interfere with normal growth, development, or function of orofacial structures.
The good news is that muscles can be strengthened and retrained with myofunctional therapy!
Orofacial dysfunction symptoms:
snoring
daytime fatigue
open mouth breathing
speech difficulty
narrow palate
tongue restriction
reverse swallow/tongue thrust
crooked teeth
ear infections- children
dark circles under eyes
bloating/ cramping
TMJ problems
shoulder/back/neck pain
morning headaches
forward head posture
Dowager's hump
long face
receded jawline
thumb/finger sucking
*Some cases are complex and need more than one specialty involved for success. These may include: Sleep doctors, Ear Nose and Throat Doctors, Orthodontists and other Dentists, Speech Language Pathologists, Physical Therapists, Craniosacral Therapists and Myofascial Therapists.
What would you like to improve?
Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders are quite common but that does not make them healthy or normal. Click on a tab below for symptom information
Mouth Breathing
We were meant to breathe through our noses. It warms, filters, humidifies and cleans our air with nitric oxide. There are many reasons people end up breathing through their mouth instead: enlarged tonsils and/or adenoids, allergies, asthma, deviated septum, nasal polyps, chronic congestion or a respiratory infection. Chronic mouth breathing has been shown to affect your teeth position, bite, facial appearance and jaw. It can be a root cause for many other problems including bad breath, dry mouth, cavities, gum disease and sleep problems. It is my job to help get you to the right specialist if needed and help retrain your muscles and behavior so that you can breathe through your mouth.
The Four Goals of Myofunctional Therapy
1. NASAL BREATHING
2. LIP SEAL
3. CORRECT TONGUE POSTURE
4. CORRECT SWALLOWING PATTERN
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