Myofunctional Disorder Resources
Information for Medical Professionals and Families
This page is a resource guide to help medical professionals and families better understand the root causes of obstructive sleep apnea and sleep-breathing disorders. Parents and adults will also have help understanding tongue ties and their effects on mouth breathing, snoring, and the need for braces (orthodontic work).
The following information provides resources that show how myofunctional therapy can address issues of adults and children and shares evidence-based research about the services I provide. As an authority in the myofunctional therapy field and the airway, I am here to help you gather information regarding myofunctional disorders, sleep apnea, mouth breathing, and tongue ties.
Sleep breathing disorders should be evaluated before diagnosing attention deficit disorders.
Checking for sleep issues in children with attention deficit disorder.
Buteyko is a breathing method that helps you slow down your breathing.
Buteyko breathing for children
How to help children breathe better.
Steve Donald: Breathing Physiology and Buteyko
How Buteyko breathing helps with wellness.
People who mouth breath have weaker chewing muscles.
Decreased chewing activity during mouth breathing
Can mouth breathing decreased facial muscle strength?
Mouth breathing, “nasal disuse,” and pediatric sleep-disordered breathing
Myofunctional therapy is needed after tonsil removal.
How myofunctional therapy helps people with continuous positive airway pressure.
Myofunctional therapy improves adherence to continuous positive airway pressure treatment
Myofunctional therapy is a great adjunctive treatment for obstructive sleep apnea.
Tongue tie release paired with myofunctional therapy is safe and effective to help with mouth breathing and sleep breathing disorders.
Passive myofunctional therapy applied on children with obstructive sleep apnea: A 6-month follow-up
Myofunctional therapy may be able to improve sleep.
How to measure for a tongue tie
Myofunctional therapy can help open bites.
Myofunctional therapy can help stregthen facial muscles
Research that shows the root cause of attention defecit disorders may be sleep breathing disorders
Lip and tongue tie releases paired with myofunctional therapy maybe able to reduce snoring
Lingual frenuloplasty with myofunctional therapy: Exploring safety and efficacy in 348 cases
Research that shows myofunctional therapy paired with a tongue tie release is safe and effective.
Myofunctional therapy can help reduce obstructive sleep apnea.
Obstructive sleep apnea: focus on myofunctional therapy
Research shows myofunctional therapy maybe able to improve sleep apnea.
Myofunctional Therapy to Treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Research shows myofunctional therapy may be able to help with sleep apnea.
Snoring can cause damage in the upper airway.
Snoring-Induced Nerve Lesions in the Upper Airway
The harmful effects of snoring.
How myofunctional therapy can help people with a tongue thrust
Myofunctional therapy helps children with a tongue thrust.
Effect of Tongue Thrust Swallowing on Position of Anterior Teeth
Should you fix a tonue thrust before going into braces?
How do we diagnose a tongue tie and how does myofunctional therapy help improve the results of a tongue tie release.
How can you tell if you have a tongue tie.
A tongue tie can change the shape of the soft palate.
Defining ankyloglossia: a case series of anterior and posterior tongue ties
How to tell the difference between a tongue tie at the front and back of the tongue.
Lingual frenuloplasty with myofunctional therapy: Exploring safety and efficacy in 348 cases
Tongue tie release helps snoring, mouth breathing and sleep apnea.