Your Child’s Airway Symptoms May Be an Airway Issue in Disguise

what’s really happening?

When the airway is restricted (due to enlarged tonsils, tongue tie, narrow palate, allergies, etc.), kids:

• Mouth breathe, reducing oxygen intake

• Sleep is fragmented and inadequate, even if they’re in bed 10 hours

• This results in hyperactive or distracted behaviour during the day

• Ritalin is an upper, so it helps with overtired kiddos

This mimics ADHD - but the root is physiological, not neurological.

So what can you do?

Establish good jaw development and airway. How do we do that in kids?

myofunctional therapy

• strengthens tongue and lips

• establishes good tongue posture

• establishes lip closure

• rewires brain to keep tongue up

• then tongue can do its job as architect of the face

• it can also maintain all the orthodontic work you may have done - its a natural retainer!

expansion of the palate

• the roof of the mouth is the floor of the nose

• palatal expansion improves nasal volume

• establishes silent and open nasal breathing

• maximises tongue space to get tongue out of the airway

• increases forward growth to widen airway behind tongue and palate

• Expansion can be achieved with: tooth pillow type devices or fixed expanders

now we have the nose open and room for the tongue...

We need to close the loop with a nasal breathing habit. This is best accomplished with the following devices AND myo therapy combined:

• Toothpillow

• Myobrace

• Vivos guides

• Healthy start

• Myomunchie