Dr. Catherine Murphy - The Holistic Orthodontist

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Dr. Catherine Murphy - The Holistic Orthodontist

Approaching orthodontics differently. Health.Hope.Harmony 🦷✨🌿 Collaborative orthodontics.

Working together with other health care providers to not only straighten teeth, but achieve facial harmony.

11/27/2025

Wishing you and yours a full of love, laughter and harmony
Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours
🧡🍁🦃🍽

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11/11/2025

Thank you to all who serve and have served 🇺🇸

11/02/2025

The ghosts and ghouls disappear after Halloween…

the sometimes silent effects of poor breathing don’t 👻

If you’re looking to truly alleviate your fears,
start by finding an orthodontist who looks beyond the smile —
one who takes a holistic approach to your whole-body health. 💫

If you don’t yet know how one’s smile is a either a sign of good growth or poor growth, start with the children’s book:
📕 “Dear Friend… Do You Know About Tongue Ties?” —
available on Amazon. 📖 📦 and anywhere books are sold online

Comment BOOK below, and I’ll send you the link!
❤️ 👃, 🛑😮‍💨

11/01/2025

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween 🎃🧡

10/31/2025

Grateful to be invited back by the San Fernando Valley Dental Society to share on “Holistic Orthodontics and the First 1,000 Days.”

Quick Summary:
How we
👃 breathe,
🛏️ sleep, and
🥦 eat
is the foundation of growth & development and wellbeing.

🤱 The habits formed in the first 1,000 days — from how we breathe to how we chew — shape the faces, airways, and overall health.

👃 When a child’s airway is supported early, facial growth follows its natural path — and prevention often replaces correction.

🦷 Crooked teeth are rarely the primary problem —
they’re the symptom of how a child breathes, sleeps, and eats during early growth.

🥰 It’s humbling to reflect on how my own journey — from pregnancy to motherhood — continues to shape the way I view early development and whole-body wellness.

💞 A heartfelt thank-you to for sponsoring this session, and to my mentors, colleagues and partners who have supported this mission along the way —
for helping make integrative, health-focused care part of everyday dentistry.

Here’s to continued collaboration, connection, and care — for our patients and for ourselves ✨

ToothpillowAmerican Dental Feed Your Good Guys Advanced Therapy & Wellness Center Buteyko Breathing Dr Jen Natural Toothpaste

10/28/2025

Why the First 1,000
Days Matter - Especially to an Orthodontist with a health centered approach

The foundation for a lifetime of healthy smiles is built long before the first tooth appears.

From conception through a child’s second birthday
- those first 1,000 days - everything is developing: airway, jaw growth, sleep patterns, even emotional regulation.

As orthodontists, we often see the results of what happened early on:

crowded teeth, open mouths, tired eyes. But when we understand those earliest years, wecan do more than treat - we can help prevent.
That’s why I’m so
passionate about sharing this message in my upcoming talk, “Holistic Orthodontics & First 1,000 Days,” with the San Fernando Valley Dental Society on October 29th.
A heartfelt thank-you to for
sponsoring this event and supporting the growing conversation around prevention-focused,whole-body dental care.

These ideas also
inspired parts of my book “Dear Momma…” available on Amazon.

10/25/2025

❤️ 👃, 🛑😮‍💨 Read post by Toothpillow!

10/03/2025

🌀 Burnout’s cousin you’ve never heard of:
Compassion Fatigue.

It’s real.
It’s rising.
And it’s reshaping healthcare.

That’s why I’m sharing a few slides from my recent talk with the Indiana Dental Association on compassion fatigue:
📊 Prevalence in healthcare workers
🦷 Why dentistry is so prone to it
💡 The small steps we can take to break the cycle

Dentistry is uniquely vulnerable — high emotional labor, patient anxieties, perfectionist pressures — all while we keep smiling through it.

Compassion Fatigue:
• Can be sudden or cumulative
• Rooted in emotional exposure (absorbing patients' pain/fear)
• Loss of empathy, numbness, irritability
• Feels like being worn down

No wonder compassion fatigue is showing up in our profession.

If you’re in dentistry and feeling worn down — you are not alone. As an American Dental Association
Wellness Ambassador, I’m here to connect you with tools and support so you can move from fatigue → compassion satisfaction.

✨ Your health matters as much as your patients’.

09/23/2025

🎶 K-pop just nailed holistic health

A demon hunter goes to the doctor for her voice… he looks at her and says:

👉 “To heal a part, we must understand the whole.”

👏 EXACTLY!
This is my mantra in health centered orthodontics.
Teeth are never just teeth.
They reflect how we:
💨 Breathe
🍴 Eat
😴 Sleep

✨ Support one → the others thrive.
⚠️ Harm one → the others struggle.

LOVE that this message is reaching the next generation through pop culture.

Whole-body health > quick fixes. 🙌

Thank you for the many good messages you are passing on to our littles and the adults watching with them!

08/23/2025

Special moment with my dad 💙

He called as soon as the Journal of the Indiana Dental Association arrived at the office to let me know he had read my article, “Mindfulness: More Than a Buzzword in Dentistry. “

His words, “Your article really made me think”, mean so much.

It’s a blessing to be able to share lessons I’ve learned on navigating burnout and compassion fatigue with my colleagues.

Mindfulness isn’t just a trend—it’s an essential tool to sustain both our wellbeing and our ability to care for others.

Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to our Journal.

Is your day spent being mindful or with your mind full?

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08/19/2025

Hope For The Day is a great organization dedicated to helping more of our loved ones enjoy more birthdays with us.

Thus it is the charity chosen this year for my FB fundraiser.

TIA for your donation

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Collaborative Orthodontics

Approaching orthodontics differently. Correcting the bad bite by addressing the underlying cause in addition to straightening the smile.

Collaborative or integrative orthodontics means your treatment plan includes working together with your other health care providers (examples: family dentist, pediatrician, chiropractor, orofacialmyofunctional therapist (OMT), speech language pathologist, to not only straighten teeth, but achieve facial harmony.

What is facial harmony? Facial harmony means the smile is not just about the teeth but the entire face. The mindset has changed from looking at orthodontics as just straightening the teeth, to using orthodontics to benefit the patient’s full growth and development potential.

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