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Orofacial myofunctional therapy for kids and adults: tongue position, lip seal and nasal breathing. Take a step towards a more functional you!

Sessions in partnering dental offices across Montgomery County, TX, and online.

10/16/2026

Thumbs and pacifiers: the question isn't whether, it's how long. 🧸

Non-nutritive sucking is normal in infancy. Babies are built for it. What changes the shape of a bite is duration and intensity — a habit that carries on through the years the arches and palate are still forming.

Which is why I don't approach a four-year-old's thumb the way I'd approach a fourteen-month-old's.

And here's what I've learned about stopping one: shaming doesn't work. Bitter polish doesn't work for long. What works is giving the child something to be — the hero of their own story — plus a replacement behavior, a visible way to track progress, and adults who stay calm about it.

That's what Habit Heroes is. Four sessions aimed at a thumb, finger or pacifier habit, added on to a Myo Music program. The child is the one doing it. I just build the plan and keep it fun.

Ready when you are.
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10/14/2026

Modern food is soft, and jaws notice. 🥕

A 2025 study in Nutrients compared children with and without a posterior crossbite. The crossbite group ate significantly more soft-textured food. The children without crossbite ate more hard foods — and were more often breastfed.

One cross-sectional study doesn't settle anything on its own, and the authors would say the same. But it points at something mechanically obvious: bone responds to load. A jaw that never has to work doesn't get the stimulus that helps shape it.

The practical version, for a Tuesday night:

🥕 Raw carrot sticks and apple slices instead of pouches and purées
🍞 Crusty bread over soft white
🍗 Meat off the bone rather than pre-shredded
🚫 Past toddlerhood, fewer things that dissolve on contact

Chewing is the one item in my scope that happens three times a day whether anyone is thinking about it or not. Worth making it count.

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10/12/2026

People ask what orofacial myofunctional therapy actually is, so here it is without the jargon. 💪

It's neuromuscular re-education for the muscles of the face and mouth. This is for a part of the body almost nobody thinks about! The impacts of improper function in these areas can have a negative impact on many body systems. My goals are simple, my methods are creative, and I love seeing how meeting these goals can impact the individual.

Four goals:

1️⃣ Lip seal — lips resting together, comfortably, without strain
2️⃣ Nasal breathing — day and night
3️⃣ Tongue rest posture — tongue up on the palate, where it belongs
4️⃣ Chewing — and the oral phase of swallowing

That's the whole list. It's short on purpose.

What it isn't: this is not speech therapy. I use sounds and music as stimulation exercises in service of those muscular goals, but speech and articulation disorders go to a licensed speech-language pathologist. It's not dentistry, dental hygiene or medical care. And what I find are observations about muscle function and oral habits — not a diagnosis.

Correcting patterns little by little through intentional movements.

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10/10/2026

If your child snores most nights, please mention it at their next well visit. 😴

A scoping review published in Children in 2025 pulled together 22 studies of preschool and school-aged children with snoring and sleep-disordered breathing. Across that literature: hyperactivity and inattention in eight studies, anxiety and depression in seven, poor school performance in ten, daytime sleepiness in eleven.

Two honest caveats, because they matter. The authors found no single dominant pattern, and they flagged real inconsistency in how these studies were designed. Association is not causation. None of this means snoring causes any of those things.

But it does mean loud, habitual snoring in a child is a finding, not a quirk of personality. It belongs in the conversation with your pediatrician.

I'm not the person who evaluates or treats sleep apnea — that's your pediatrician and, if they refer, a sleep physician. What I look at is muscle function and oral habits: where the tongue rests, whether the lips seal, whether the child is breathing through the nose.

Different question, same child. Worth having both answered.

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10/08/2026

Allergy season in Montgomery County is not kind, and there's a connection here that doesn't get talked about enough. 🌿

A 2025 review in Frontiers in Allergy walked through what chronic rhinitis does to a growing face. When the nose is blocked for long enough, a child switches to mouth breathing. The tongue drops to the floor of the mouth. And the upper jaw loses the light, steady support the tongue normally gives it.

Over years, that shows up as a narrower upper arch and a longer lower face.

What I want you to notice is the order the authors put things in. Treat the underlying disease first — that's your allergist, pediatrician or ENT, with medication or, where it's indicated, surgery. Then correct the breathing habit. Then orthodontics, if it's needed.

Myofunctional therapy sits in the middle of that list. Not at the front. Because no child can hold nasal breathing through a nose that won't open.

If your child's nose is blocked most of the year, start with the doctor. I'll be here for the habit.

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10/06/2026

Quick anatomy, because this one surprises people. 👃

Breathing through your nose is not just breathing through a smaller hole.

The nose warms the air. It humidifies it. It filters it. And it adds nitric oxide, produced in the sinuses, which helps the lungs take up oxygen and helps blood vessels relax.

Air that comes in through the mouth skips every bit of that. Cold, dry, unfiltered, no nitric oxide.

And that's before we get to posture. When the mouth is open, the tongue drops to the floor. When the tongue is down, it isn't resting against the palate — and that light, constant contact is part of what shapes the upper arch while a child is growing.

One breath doesn't matter. Around twenty thousand a day, for years, is a different question.

Lips together. Tongue up. Breathe through the nose.
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10/02/2026

Tongue exercises for snoring? There's research on that.

In a 2025 randomized controlled trial, adults who did six weeks of tongue and mouth exercises had lower snoring scores from their bed partners than the control group.

A 2025 analysis of 15 randomized trials found that myofunctional therapy improved daytime sleepiness, sleep quality and snoring, and the people who practiced consistently got the most out of it.

Consistency is what makes the difference, which is why my programs are built around daily practice you can stick with.

One important note: snoring can be a sign of sleep apnea. If you snore, ask your doctor about a sleep evaluation. Myofunctional therapy works alongside medical care, not instead of it.

📚 Abu Alheija et al., Acta Oto-Laryngologica, 2025 · https://doi.org/10.1080/00016489.2025.2541603
📚 Xu et al., Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice, 2025 · https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532338225000521

10/01/2026

Palatal expansion and airway: what the research shows

When a child's upper jaw is narrow, an orthodontist may widen it with an expander. A 2017 review of 17 studies (314 children with narrow palates and sleep apnea) found that breathing pauses during sleep dropped by about 70% after rapid maxillary expansion.

Expansion is one part of the picture. In another study, more than half of the children still had some breathing events during sleep after expansion, and the authors concluded: "An integrated therapy is needed."

An expander creates room. My part is the tongue, lips and breathing that use that room every day: tongue up on the palate, lips sealed, air through the nose.

If your child is in an expander or about to start one, ask your orthodontist whether myofunctional therapy belongs alongside it. I love working with orthodontists.

📚 Camacho et al., Laryngoscope, 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1002/lary.26352
📚 Villa et al., Sleep Medicine, 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2014.11.019

09/29/2026

Why do I care so much about lips-together, nose-breathing kids?

A 2010 study looked at 116 children in orthodontic treatment. 49% of the mouth breathers had a posterior crossbite, compared with 26% of the nasal breathers. The mouth breathers also had narrower dental arches.

A 2021 review of 10 studies pointed the same way: children who mouth-breathe tended to grow longer, more vertical faces, and a narrowed airway was common.

The tongue resting up on the roof of the mouth, lips closed, air moving through the nose: that is the posture a growing face is built around. It's also exactly what I work on.

Signs to watch for: lips apart at rest, sleeping with the mouth open, snoring, dark circles under the eyes and chapped lips.

📚 Harari et al., Laryngoscope, 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1002/lary.20991
📚 Zhao et al., BMC Oral Health, 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s12903-021-01458-7

09/25/2026

My Tongue Therapy is back, with a fresh new look!

After some time away, I'm reopening my orofacial myofunctional therapy practice here in Montgomery County. Sessions are held inside partnering dental offices and online.

If you're new here: my work focuses on tongue position, lip seal and nasal breathing, along with chewing. Get those working well, and the benefits that come from that will come.

About me: I've been a dental hygienist since 1999. I served as the myofunctional therapist in one of the first Breathe Institute–affiliated dental practices in the country, where I worked alongside the release provider before, during and after tongue-tie procedures.

Over the next few weeks I'll share research on airway, sleep, palatal expansion and the team approach to care. Follow along, and send me your questions!

Take a step towards a more functional you.
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