4 years old with airway issue.
Thursday, 01 May 2025
I wanted to ask you a few questions regarding my daughter. I appreciate your experience and expertise. She just turned 4, I’ve been seeing signs of sleep apnea since she’s little. She doesn’t stop breathing, but she turns her head back when she sleeps, she snores, mouth breath mostly at night, high narrow palate and
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Reviv Appliance
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
My reason for this email is I would like to find out more about Reviv please. Currently in our office we use Healthy Start, Bioactivators, lab made expanders ETC. I am looking for something more in the sense of something that I can order without needing a Dentist.
2025 Orofacial Myology News – April Edition
Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Anterior posterior spacing with frenectomy and orthognathic surgery
Tuesday, 15 April 2025
Q: I spoke with someone who mentioned several times the insufficient anterior posterior spacing in relation to frenectomy and orthognathic surgery. Is this new information? Or is this just something completely out of left field? Thanks, RA (QOM) A: Good afternoon, I’m not sure what the anterior posterior spacing insufficiency specifically is referring to— so here
Helping with short philtrum on young adult
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Hi, I hope you can help clarify a few things for me. I have an 18 yr old who has a short philtrum (12mm). Her upper lip sits on her bottom teeth and lips remain open all the time, even while eating most of the time. She is not able to do the Balloon Lip exercise very well. Is that exercise supposed to be done by isolating the air to the upper lip or is it alright for the air to be filling the cheeks simultaneously?
Young Adult with lisp, narrow vaulted arch, jaw thrusting, TMD: Questions that must be addressed
Sunday, 02 March 2025
Q: I’m writing with a question regarding a 22-year-old client recently evaluated; her mother sent her to me with concerns about a frontal lisp due to a “tongue thrust.” According to mom, the young woman had had a “tongue thrust” and frontal lisp that went away around age 7 when her tonsils and adenoids were
5 year old with tongue tie and difficultly with /l/ production
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
I have a 5 yr old patient who has an obvious lingual tongue tie. He had a posterior cut when he was an infant but cannot elevate tongue tip to spot and cannot suction. He cannot produce /L/. I referred him to an ENT who said he doesn't recommend cutting the tie, but rather he suggested...
Is Oral Habit Elimination Appropriate at this Time?
Thursday, 30 May 2024
Any Risk of Tongue Falling Back Post Release?
Monday, 13 May 2024
...She was told by one provider that there is a risk of the tongue falling back into the airway in the case of CP.
Child cannot put tongue tip to spot – Republished
Monday, 08 April 2024
I wondered if you could share your thoughts. One child in particular has been seen a number of times and simply cannot put tongue tip to spot.