Innovation Myofunctional Therapy - London

06/06/2022

AUCTION! AUCTION! AUCTION!
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02/06/2022

This article speaks about hygiene but is actually relevant to all dental team members.

Dental hygienists are a practice's lifeline, and there’s a huge shortage of them. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Bethany Montoya, RDH, lays out how focusing on relationship, ownership, and leadership can make all the difference.

04/28/2021

PDF | On Mar 16, 2020, Ponranjini Vedeswari Chandrasekaran and others published Prevalence of Ankyloglossia among Children Reporting with Speech Pathology to District Early Intervention Centre (DEIC)- An Observational Study | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

04/17/2021

This narrative review surveys current research demonstrating how oral dysfunction can escalate into malocclusion, acquired craniofacial disorder and contribute to generational dysfunction, disorder ...

04/14/2021

Children who regularly snore have structural changes in their brain that may account for the behavioral problems associated with the condition including lack of focus, hyperactivity, and learning difficulties at school. That is the finding of a new study conducted by researchers at the University of...

03/02/2021

The Breathe Institute explains myofunctional therapy and the tongue exercises they assigned to Kourt. Read more on the benefits here: https://poosh.com/kourt...

11/30/2020

Activating your vagus nerve signals your digestive system to work with you (Not against you).

One of the most fascinating aspects of the mouth-brain-body connection is the neurological connection of the cranial nerves. It helps us dive deep into the mouth body connection. The mouth provides us with the tools to access and understand our entire system.

Let's think about digestion.

Digestion begins in the mouth as a neurological reflex chewing chewing. Oral posture when can also send this signal when you’re not eating.

It’s about shifting the neural system to parasympathetic (relax and digest) from sympathetic (fight and flight).

The palate is innervated by parasympathetic cranial nerves (among others) but at the BACK of the throat, is the area controlled by the vagus nerve.

Stimulating the vagus nerve has played a key role in the management of a range of conditions including digestive to mental health.

What exactly is the vagus nerve? It’s the connection between your mouth and digestive system.

The vagus nerve is the longest cranial nerve in your body.

It connects your brain to many important organs throughout the body, including the gut (intestines, stomach), heart and lungs.

In fact, the word "vagus" means “wanderer” in Latin, which accurately represents how the nerve wanders all over the body and reaches various organs.
You can stimulate your vagus nerve as your reading this post. The tongue should activate this area of the throat when you swallow. It’s a deep, up and backwards motion that stimulates the whole throat. You should feel a lifting right behind the upper jaw.
That’s your body calming itself down. Another way to activate the vagus nerve is gargling.

You swallow ever 10-20 seconds. So each is an opportunity to send a ‘calming’ message to your brain.

It leads us deeper, with the connection to the voice and throat muscles, yes everything is connected.

Vagal tone, and activating the cranial nerves that help us move into rest and digest is a powerful tool to calm the entire body down.

Can you activate this part of the throat during swallowing?

05/05/2020

Thank you to Dr Steven Lin for always keeping us up to date with great info!

A suggestive set of numbers was published online in April by a medical scientist in the Philippines, Dr Mark Alipio.

03/07/2020

(2020). Orofacial function in children with Speech Sound Disorders (SSD) persisting after the age of six years. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Ahead of Print.