Description
A Breathtaking Look at Myofunctional Therapy
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Overview/Schedule:
8:00-8:30- Registration and Breakfast
8:30-9:00 MDHA Presidential Update
9:00-11:00 Session 1
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-1:30 Session 2
1:30-2:30- Lunch
2:30-4:30 Session 3
Session 1: What we see every day. The Five Dimensions of Tongue Tie.
A revolution has been occurring and it has some people pretty uncomfortable. In school we learned of ankyloglossia, the pictures showed a tongue completely tethered to the floor of the mouth. We were taught that if the patient can talk and eat there’s no reason to “clip it.” At the dawn of time infants who couldn’t nurse because of ankyloglossia were left to perish. Those were brutal times! Since infant formula and bottles are so easy to use and children are nice and round, releasing ties is relegated to the elective surgery discussions. What if that’s wrong? Why is that wrong?
The question of why that’s wrong has been the life’s work of Dr. Sarouch Zaghi. He is a protege of Dr. Christian Guilleminault, the father of sleep apnea who boldly set out to show that sleep apnea in non-obese children was a function of improper facial growth led by a lack of tongue mobility. Dr. Guilleminault set Dr. Zaghi onto the missing link in all of sleep architecture, the tongue. Today we know of new ways to measure the mobility of the tongue, when, why, and how to release the tongue and how important orofacial myofunctional therapy is to all of sleep, with or without a functional release.
Using validated tools and measurements we’ll work with live people (each other) to assess everyone for a restriction and show how OMT would approach the case. We’ll see cases and videos of cases that we treated at Primal Air.
Learning Outcomes
- Integrate assessment of the tongue’s mobility in the oral cancer screening segment of an oral assessment
- Identify a good candidate for orofacial myofunctional therapy
- Assess a live case presentation for tongue mobility and oral outcomes of the mobility or lack thereof.
Session 2: How we got here (evolution). Evolution, Epigenetics and the Tinkering of Humans
In 1910s Dr. Fones launched the field of Dental Hygiene
In 1936 the science of Dental Hygiene was launched
In 1939 Dr Price published “Nutrition and Physical Degradation”
In 1947 Dr. Potager showed how nutritional mismatches quickly damaged generations of cats
In 1976 Dr. Bruce Lipton showed how DNA was affected by surroundings
In 2014 Dr. Kevin Boyd coined Darwinian Dentistry
This course is about the shrinking maxilla! The shrinking sinuses and maxilla have put some serious stress on breathing and the airway. Recent findings indicate that if matched by evolution the change in the size of the maxilla that’s occurred in the last 125 years would have taken 10,000 years of true evolution. So what? This shrinking airway, or Upper Airway Restriction Syndrome is linked to ADHD, Fibromyalgia, Enuresis, IBS, and sleep apnea to name a few. Learn why we must help our patients make Oral Systemic changes to stop this current disease snowball we’re all seeing grow in real time.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe the difference between evolution and epigenetics
- Identify nutritional short comings in our patients
- Identify groups within the practice who would benefit most from changes
Session 3: What to do about it. Face Fixer: The story of Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy for RDH
Your patients depend on you to help them prevent problems. As the science of dentistry continues to press forward, we are rediscovering the true initiation of dental problems as a nutritional cause, not just over sugared or under flossed. Caries and periodontal disease in adults can be prevented by taking a new look at infants and small children; the epigenetics of it all must be considered and figured into causative agents of current conditions.
The dental hygienists in the audience will learn who to add to their own prevention team, and how to collaborate for the benefit of excellent patient care.
Orofacial myofunctional therapy is not a new term. The idea of toning the muscles in the snoring complex – the craniofacial respiratory complex – works for many oral and systemic issues. Focusing on the airway, in every age group, can reap benefits far beyond traditional dental hygiene skills.
Learning Outcomes
- List the five dimensions of a tongue tie
- Develop a pathway for the practitioner to grow
- List who can be part of a dental hygiene collaboration team
- Define ways to become a true next level practitioner
