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Stop noxious habits in their tracks! Is your child a thumb sucker or nail bitter. We offer a 4-week program to completely eliminate the habit and replace it with proper tongue placement. Save thousands of dollars on future dental/orthodontic care. Ages 4-7 are the ideal time to break these habits and allow for correct facial growth patterns to develop. Our program has a 98% success rate. We work with the child to ensure that they successfully break the habit with no shame or discomfort.

Myofunctional therapy can help prepare the tongue for a proper frenectomy (tongue tie release.) The Myofunctional Therapist will work one on one with the patient to strengthen the tongue and facial muscles before a frenectomy is done. We then do follow up care to help the tongue heal correctly and avoid scar tissue that can form a tighter frenulum. We will also teach proper tongue posture and ensure you have a functional swallow ensuring no residual issues from the tongue tie.

Did you know snoring is a form of sleep apnea? The severity can vary from minimal to sever and therapy can help.

Myofunctional therapy can decrease apnea-hypopnea index by 50% in adults and 62% in children according to Stanford Medicine.  Sleep apnea can be treated in many ways, myofunctional therapy is a great option because it requires no medication and is minimally invasive. Sleep apnea typically occurs if there is an obstruction either tongue, facial muscles, or soft palate. that cause a narrowing of the airway. By eliminating that obstruction better breathing and sleep can occur.  Using specific exercises, we can tighten and tone the muscles to eliminate or reduce snoring and improve oxygen levels while sleeping.

Nasal breathing is best! While mouth breathing can only give us oxygen, evidence demonstrates that nasal breathing can give our bodies a mixture of oxygen and nitric oxide.  This gas mixture is known to benefit our bodies in a number of ways. To start, it allows our oxygen to travel faster to our muscles, helps aid and improve our rem cycles while sleeping and can promote health habits to improve our facial growth patterns. Myofunctional therapy works by strengthening the facial/lip muscles to support nasal breathing during the day as well as night. It can even help improve our bodies athletic abilities by increasing endurance and strength.    

A tongue thrust can have serious negative effects on facial and oral development as well as speech problems.  A tongue thrust can prolong ortho treatment due to the tongue creating unnecessary pressure against the upper front teeth leading to an open bite. 

This oral motor disorder can be treated using myofunctional therapy to help strengthen and correct the tongues posture during rest and help build a functional swallow. By eliminating the thrust we can prevent future complications. Early intervention is key in helping correct the facial development and grwoth patterns.

Myofunctional therapy helps treat the root cause of TMJ pain by strengthening the tongue and orofacial muscles, which then can help correct tongue posture, correct poor swallowing patterns and repattern the head and neck muscles.  By correcting these functional we can reduce clenching and grinding, headaches, and jaw pain. TMD pain can significantly reduce your quality of life. our minimally invasive therapy can get you back to feeling like yourself.

Myofunctional therapy can help a number of issues to improve your overall quality of life we will work with your current providers to get you the best possible care. Here is a list of what orofacial disorders we help treat.

• Tongue and lip tie
• Tongue thrust
• Sleep apnea
• TMJ disorders
• Functional swallow
• Nasal breathing
• Athletic Airway training
• Clenching and grinding
• Dysphagia 
• Nursing and feeding
• Noxious habit elimination
• Lip seal
• Facial development and growth patterns