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When certain muscles of the face are activated and functioning properly, other muscles will follow suit until proper coordination of the tongue and facial muscles is attained.

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With myofunctional therapy, a patient can regain the joy of eating, speaking, breathing, and even sleeping more soundly.
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Myofunctional Therapy has helped literally thousands of individuals in dozens of countries for over 50 years!

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Did you know that Orthodontists have documented their concerns about Orofacial myofunctional disorders since the early 1900’s!
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Our programs are individualized and focus on tongue and facial resting postures, swallowing, and speech articulation. Therapy is painless and the exercises are relatively simple!

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Correcting muscle function while a person is still growing and developing encourages proper bone and dental development, making early identification optimal.
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Children as young as 4 years old can undergo an evaluation for causal factors of an OMD such as a restricted airway or a tongue-tie.

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The consequences of living with an OMD can hinder your overall quality of life. We are here to help!
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OMD’s can affect many aspects of health from breathing/airway constriction, GERD, digestion problems, sleep disorders, headaches and TMJ. OMD’s can also affect the stability of orthodontic results.

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Your tongue, lips, and facial muscles balance each other and when one is out of place or not working correctly, it throws off the balance of everything else.

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How old is too old to correct an OMD? You are never too old! Age is not necessarily a factor in predicting success of a therapy program.
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When you have an OMD, Chewing and swallowing may be difficult. It can become much easier with orofacial myofunctional therapy!
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Proper tongue function is necessary for success with braces. The tongue will be trained to function like a natural retainer that can minimize aggressive orthodontic work and relapse.

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Proper nasal breathing can help you avoid oral health problems, like dry mouth and tooth decay.
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Retraining your orofacial structures to work at their best will have positive effects on the way your face looks!

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If you are a parent and are concerned that your child may have an OMD, it’s unlikely that your child will be able to describe the problem to you. They may not even know that they have a problem.

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Sometimes, children are born with an anatomical defect that causes an OMD. In other cases, OMDs develop later in life. A jaw injury, worsening occlusion (the way a bite fits together), and other factors may cause adults to develop an OMD.
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Treatment for orofacial myofunctional disorders includes a series of activities aimed at training (and retraining) muscles of the face and the oral cavity to function to their maximum benefit. These cannot be learned overnight. After all, patients have to unlearn a lifetime of habits

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One of the goals of orofacial myofunctional therapy is to achieve optimum oral resting posture. This means, when you are not eating or speaking, the natural resting state of your orofacial system has the lips closed, the teeth closed, and the tongue resting comfortably in the roof of your mouth

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In addition to better facial development, orofacial myofunctional therapy leads to straighter teeth and improved nasal breathing.

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Sippy cups are easy to clean and they prevent spills, but they also severely impair your child’s oral development and do more harm than good.
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Did you know that approximately 80% of all "tongue thrusters" have an airway (respiratory) problem, and the other 20% usually have a detrimental habit, such as thumb sucking?

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Mouth breathing can affect the position of your teeth and your bite. When the mouth is open, the lips are weak and there’s no external support for the teeth. The tongue simultaneously pushes forward, progressively moving the teeth over time.

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Do you snore? Clench or grind your teeth? Do you get headaches? Jaw Pain? What about migraines? Overall body tension? Breathe through your mouth? You could be tongue-tied.
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When the tongue rests low in the mouth, it must push forward to swallow – this is called a tongue thrust. A tongue thrust and mouth breathing always go hand in hand – so if you’re mouth breathing, you also have a tongue thrust swallowing pattern
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Breathing dysfunctions impact health by reduced blood circulation and oxygen delivery, airway narrowing, poor sleep, nasal congestion, decreased energy and increase of anxiety and stress.
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WHAT is Buteyko Breathing Technique (BBT). Buteyko aims to reduce breathing disorders, by reducing unnecessary coughing, clear the nose and manage symptoms
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When the tongue is in the correct position at rest you cannot mouth breathe - the tongue suction up provides for continuous nasal breathing. When the tongue is resting correctly in the mouth it helps widen and grow the upper arch and helps keep the airway open.
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Working together with orthodontic, dental, and speech providers optimizes patients' results as well as increases the retention of their treatments