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Do Any Of These Symptoms
Impact You?
Mouth Breathing
Orthodontic Relapse
Chronic Tension
Mood Disorders
Jaw Pain
Toxic Oral Habits
Tongue Thrust
Snoring
Chronic Headaches
Grinding
Swallowing Difficulty
Poor Posture
Just Pieces Of a Big Puzzle
Many concerns are all pieces of a bigger puzzle. Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy to address one issue will often solve more than one concern. Our practice works with you as a whole human. We are looking for root cause resolution, not just band-aids for symptoms.
Mouth Breathing
Nature intended for us to breathe out of our nose. It’s important to learn how to leave the complications of mouth breathing behind. Myofunctional therapy can help you master this habit so you can breathe properly and more efficiently.
Tongue-Tie
When your tongue is anchored to the floor of your mouth, you have a restricted range of movement (tongue-tie). It can be difficult to nasal breathe, articulate speech, and swallow properly. This therapy teaches you proper tongue position which in turn offers a cascade of benefits.
Snoring / Sleep Apnea
Anything that disrupts your sleep can be detrimental to your health. It is also detrimental to your health to disrupt oxygen flow to your brain! Knowing that there are solutions to these problems is the first step. Seeking therapy is the next step!
Speech Concerns
Thumb Sucking
The mouth is pliable and when thumb or finger sucking occurs the shape of the arch is remodeled, creating orthodontic challenges such as an open bite or cross bite. Quitting the habit is the first step, but it is also very important to learn new habits and retrain the tongue. I encourage that parents seek myofunctional therapy to stop a child’s habit before the baby teeth start to fall out.
Orthodontics
Straightening teeth is a challenge to begin with! If you have a tongue thrust swallowing pattern you might be fighting the orthodontic process every step of the way! Habits such as tongue thrusting, low resting tongue posture and thumb sucking must be corrected so that orthodontic work can be long lasting and successful. Learn more about braces and myofunctional therapy.
Stomach Aches
Tongue Thrust
A tongue thrust pushes the tongue forward when swallowing, often pushing the teeth forward and causing the patient to swallow air. Correcting a tongue thrust is important for orthodontic success as well as alleviating digestive issues.
Headaches
Jaw Pain
When the tongue is not properly resting in the roof of the mouth, the jaw joint is not supported. When the tongue is low, the condyle shifts forwards often causing jaw pain for patients.
What Is Myofunctional Therapy?
Who is It For?
Myofunctional therapy helps rehabilitate the oral structures, and improve / restore oral function in people who experience orofacial myofunctional disorders (OMD’s).
What is Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy?
Orofacial myofunctional therapy is an individualized program of static and dynamic strength and pattern retraining exercises of the tongue and orofacial muscles to correct maladaptive oral habits and help restore correct oral resting posture.
Myofunctional therapy focuses on the muscles of the mouth, face, and throat. By strengthening weak muscles, learning proper function and making behavior modifications, improvements can be made to breathing, speaking, chewing and swallowing.
What are Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders?
Orofacial myofunctional disorders are disorders of the muscles and the functions of the face and mouth. These disorders may affect breastfeeding, chewing, swallowing, speech, jaw movement, facial and skeletal growth, orthodontic treatment, facial appearance and more.
What does an orofacial myofunctional therapist do?
A myofunctional therapist helps you rehabilitate the oral structures and much more.
As the “hub” of your comprehensive health team, I will complete your integrative health assessment, identify compensations, help foster competencies, address structure, function, and behavior, take the role of your health education educator, and create your collaborative therapy plan.
What ages should do orofacial myofunctional therapy?
We help toddlers and up. It depends upon the age of the client, but we have something to help almost everyone. From our Mommy, Myo & Me program to traditional 1-on-1 therapy, we teach you the tactics and tools to make a huge impact from the very beginning.
When should I start orofacial myofunctional therapy?
The sooner the better. The longer a person has OMD’s, the longer it can take to learn and retain new, positive habits. Anyone having a tongue-tie release should start therapy far in advance of the procedure.
Interested in Becoming an OMT?
Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy (also known as OMT) is a specialty within the scope of practice for dentists, dental hygienists and speech therapists. We train amazing therapists through the Myofunctional Therapy Training Academy. Help us change more lives! There is plenty of need to go around! Schedule an informational call here or visit the MTTA website to learn more about our programs and the next enrollment.
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