Myofunctional Therapy Research

Below is a list of the top myofunctional therapy research articles.

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Airway and Sleep Orthodontics Tongue Issues

Infant & Breastfeeding Issues Posture & Bodywork

Airway and Sleep Research

• Mouth Breathing Research

  • Tonsil Removal and Mouth Breathing
  • Intraoral pH and temperature during sleep with and without mouth breathing
  • Oral Breathing and Speech Disorders in Children
  • Mouth breathing, “nasal disuse,” and pediatric sleep-disordered breathing
  • Model of oronasal rehabilitation in children with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome undergoing rapid maxillary expansion: Research review
  • The mouth breathing syndrome: prevalence, causes, consequences and treatment
  • Breathing mode influence in craniofacial development
  • Oral breathing: new early treatment
    protocol
  • Decreased chewing activity during mouth breathing
  • Prevalence of malocclusion among mouth breathing children: Do expectations meet reality?
  • Three-dimensional assessment of pharyngeal airway in nasal- and mouth-breathing children

• Asthma Research

  • Asthma is being overdiagnosed

• Bruxism / Clenching

  • Relationship between sleep bruxism and sleep respiratory events
  • Chewing, Biting, Clenching, Bruxing and Oral Health

• Sleep Apnea Research (Breathing Disordered Sleep) in Children and Adults

  • AAO Guidlines for Sleep Disorders in Children
  • Myofunctional Exercises are Proven to Help with Sleep Apnea
  • Pediatric Sleep Disorders
  • Pediatric sleep-disordered breathing: New evidence on its development.
  • OSA in Children
  • Orthodontics and Sleep Apnea
  • Myofunctional Therapy A Novel Treatment of Pediatric Sleep-Disordered Breathing
  • Oropharyngeal exercises to reduce symptoms of OSA after AT
  • Most sleep apnea cases misdiagnosed
    
  • Orofacial motor functions in pediatric obstructive sleep apnea and implications for myofunctional therapy
  • Rapid Maxillary Expansion and Childhood Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome
  • Myofunctional Therapy to Treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
  • A frequent phenotype for paediatric sleep apnea: short lingual frenulum
  • Critical role of myofascial reeducation in pediatric sleep-disordered breathing
  • Short Lingual Frenulum and Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children
  • Teenage sleep-disordered breathing: Recurrence of syndrome
  • Towards Restoration of Continuous Nasal Breathing as the Ultimate Treatment Goal in Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  • Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea and the Critical Role of Oral-Facial Growth: Evidences
  • Childhood Sleep-Disorder Breathing: A Dental Perspective
  • Orofacial motor functions in pediatric obstructive sleep apnea and implications formyofunctional therapy
  • Myofunctional therapy applied to upper airway resistance syndrome: a case report
  • Treatment of Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Oral Appliances
  • Surgical and Non-Surgical Therapy of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome in Children
  • Myofunctional therapy improves adherence to continuous positive airway pressure treatment
  • The preliminary results of the differences in craniofacial and airway morphology between preterm and full-term children with obstructive sleep apnea

• Snoring Research

  • Myofunctional Therapy and Snoring
  • Snoring Toddlers
  • Good Morning America Segment on Oropharyngeal Exercises for Snoring

• ADHD / ADD Research

  • Mouth Breathers more likely to have attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) and sleep disorders
  • The search for the cause of a preschooler’s difficult behavior leads to a surprising discovery.

Orthodontics / Orthodontic Relapse / Malocclusions

• Patients treated with orthodontic myofunctional therapeutic protocol
• Relapse of anterior open bites treated with orthodontic appliances with and without orofacial myofunctional therapy
• Orthodontics and Sleep-Disordered Breathing
• Early risk factors for posterior crossbite and anterior open bite in the primary dentition
• Interventions for the cessation of non-nutritive sucking habits in children.
• Rapid Maxillary Expansion and Childhood Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome
• Model of oronasal rehabilitation in children with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome undergoing rapid maxillary expansion: Research review
• Treatment of Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Oral Appliances
• Lateral open bite: Treatment and stability
• Causal relationship between malocclusion and oral muscles dysfunction: a model of approach
• Cephalometric evaluation of the hyoid triangle before and after maxillary rapid expansion in patients with skeletal class II, mixed dentition, and infantile swallowing
• The postural basis of malocclusion: A
  philosophical overview
• Nonsurgical and nonextraction treatment of skeletal Class III open bite: Its long-term stability
• Orthodontic intervention combined with myofunctional therapy increases electromyographic activity of masticatory muscles in patients with skeletal unilateral posterior crossbite
• Posterior crossbite in the deciduous dentition period, its relation with sucking habits, irregular orofacial functions, and otolaryngological findings
• Cervical vertebral column morphology related to craniofacial morphology and head posture in preorthodontic children with Class II malocclusion and horizontal maxillary overjet
• Prevalence of malocclusion among mouth breathing children: Do expectations meet reality?
• Orthodontic treatment in a patient with unilateral open-bite and Becker muscular dystrophy. A 5-year follow-up

• Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction

  • Effects of oral motor exercises and laser therapy on chronic temporomandibular disorders: a randomized study with follow-up
  • Airway Centric TMJ Philosophy

Tongue Issues

• Tongue movements in patients with skeletal Class III malocclusions evaluated with real-time balanced turbo field echo cine magnetic resonance imaging

• Tongue Tie Research

  • Tethered Oral Ties
  • Multidisciplinary management of ankyloglossia in childhood. Treatment of 101 cases. A protocol
  • Aerophagia Induced Reflux in Breastfeeding Infants With Ankyloglossia and Shortened Maxillary Labial Frenula (Tongue and Lip Tie)
  • A frequent phenotype for paediatric sleep apnea: short lingual frenulum
  • Short Lingual Frenulum and Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children
  • Relationship between the lingual frenulum and
    craniofacial morphology in adults

• Tongue Thrust Research

  • Tongue Thrust and its Influence on Orthodontics
  • The Tongue Was Involved, But What Was the Trouble?

Infant & Breastfeeding Problems

• Breast feeding and breathing patterns in children
• Anatomy and Physiology of Feeding and Swallowing – Normal and Abnormal
• Influence of feeding patterns on the development of teeth, dentition and jaw in children
• Aerophagia Induced Reflux in Breastfeeding Infants With Ankyloglossia and Shortened Maxillary Labial Frenula (Tongue and Lip Tie)
• The preliminary results of the differences in craniofacial and airway morphology between preterm and full-term children with obstructive sleep apnea

Posture and Bodywork Research

• Influence of Posture on Swallowing
• Body Posture and TMJ Disorders