In my search for how to correct mouth breathing, I discovered myo-functional therapy and Chris in June 2016. My daughter has been seeing her for 4 months learning to keep her mouth closed, tongue in rest position, nasal breathing and swallowing properly with amazing results! Her confidence and appearance has improved – more symmetrical and decrease in size of the bottom lip. Her physical endurance improved and is showing in her dance and volleyball. Chris is a motivating teacher and passionate about helping her patients and the benefits of Myo-functional therapy. I am so thankful that we found her and HIGHLY recommend the therapy! I want to share my story so others can benefit and compare. When she was a little baby, she got croup. From then on, she struggled with ear infections, and strep throat repeatedly . At 6 years old, she was diagnosed with “Adenoid face” and had a Adenotonsillectomy at Johns Hopkins. I was told at this time, my daughter was a mouth breather, but given no advice or direction as to how to correct. On top of this, her teeth were developing crooked and overcrowded. We did the expander twice before braces were put on at 11. Her baby teeth were not falling out, so they pulled 7 teeth out at once before the braces. Over the years, I noticed my daughters bottom lip kept getting bigger. No one in the family had lips like this. At the beginning of 2016, she got sick but it turned into wheezing. She coughed for months, then on Mother’s day wound up in hospital with asthma. I took her to an allergist and they did a breathing test where she was below average and started her on inhalers to control asthma. I did not want her on drugs the rest of her life and began researching mouth breathing on the internet. I was amazed to find out that tongue tied, sickness, asthma, abnormal facial and teeth development were all symptoms of mouth breathing. It all made sense! The fact that her tongue tie caused her tongue to not touch the roof of her mouth led to her upper jaw not developing properly causing crooked teeth, and since she was not breathing thru her nose to filter germs, the adenoids and tonsils became large and infected from doing this job.
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