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Could some ADHD be a type of sleep disorder? That would fundamentally change how we treat it.

By Ariana Eunjung Cha September 20 Washington Post

Finding Connor Deegan - Foundation for Airway Health - New York

Mouth Breathers A multi-disciplinary treatise on how to manage your mouth breathing patient

Nasal Breathing Matters…And Matters A Lot

William M. Hang, DDS, MSD

Assessment of Nasal Breathing Using Lip Taping: A Simple and Effective Screening Tool

OSA in Children: Symptoms

What Causes Crooked Teeth in Kids?

Dr. Steven Lin

Chewing, Biting, Clenching, Bruxing and Oral Health

March 7, 2016 by Licia Coceani Paskay, MS, CCC-SLP

Effects of oropharyngeal exercises on patients with moderate obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19234106/

Sleepiness, occlusion, dental arch and palatal dimensions in children attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Eur Arch Paediatr Dent. 2018 Apr;19(2):91-97. doi: 10.1007/s40368-018-0330-3. Epub 2018 Mar 14.

Andersson H1, Sonnesen L2.

Oropharyngeal and tongue exercises (myofunctional therapy) for snoring: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Lingual and Maxillary Labial Frenuloplasty with Myofunctional Therapy as a Treatment for Mouth Breathing and Snoring

Duration of nutritive and nonnutritive sucking behaviors and their effects on the dental arches in the primary dentition

The Effect of Breathing Exercises on the Nocturnal Enuresis in the Children with the Sleep-Disordered Breathing

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3971783/

Dental malocclusion and upper airway obstruction, an otolaryngologist's perspective

Establishing the association between nonnutritive sucking behavior and malocclusions: A systematic review and meta-analysis

How tongue mobility changes face and jaw development

Breast feeding, bottle feeding, and non-nutritive sucking; effects on occlusion in deciduous dentition

Obstructive sleep apnea: focus on myofunctional therapy

Oropharyngeal exercises in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea: our experience

Can myofunctional therapy increase tongue tone and reduce symptoms in children with sleep-disordered breathing?

Mouth breathing, “nasal disuse,” and pediatric sleep-disordered breathing

Association between oral habits, mouth breathing and malocclusion

Myofunctional Therapy to Treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Effects of Oropharyngeal Exercises on Patients with Moderate Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

Myofunctional therapy improves adherence to continuous positive airway pressure treatment

Effectiveness of Myofunctional Therapy in Ankyloglossia: A Systematic Review

Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy Effectivity in Child's Anterior Open Bite

[Clinical application of orofacial myofunctional therapy combined with muscle functionnal appliance in postoperative rehabilitation of children with OSA].

[Effect of mouth breathing on upper airway structure in patients with obstructive sleep apnea]

Effect of orofacial myofunctional therapy along with preformed appliances on patients with mixed dentition and lip incompetence

Neurocognition, Behavior, Socioeconomic, and Health Outcomes of Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Muscle tension dysphonia in singers and professional speakers with ankyloglossia: Impact of treatment with lingual frenuloplasty and orofacial myofunctional therapy

Orofacial dysfunction screening examinations in children with sleep-disordered breathing symptoms

Is ankyloglossia associated with obstructive sleep apnea?

Effectiveness of Myofunctional Therapy in Ankyloglossia: A Systematic Review

Can deciduous malocclusion phenotypes predict future respiratory co-morbidity?

Lingual frenulum and malocclusion: An overlooked tissue or a minor issue

Sleep Disordered Breathing and Risk for ADHD: Review of Supportive Evidence and Proposed Underlying Mechanisms

Deleterious sucking habits and atypical swallowing in children with otitis media with effusion

Craniofacial Sleep Medicine: The Important Role of Dental Providers in Detecting and Treating Sleep Disordered Breathing in Children

Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy: The Critical Missing Element to Complete Patient Care, By Joy L. Moeller, BS, RDH, Myofunctional Therapist

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Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy:
The Critical Missing Element to Complete Patient Care, By Joy L. Moeller, BS, RDH, Myofunctional Therapist