My 13-year-old son has been working with Chris for about a year. My son had a variety of health issues as a child including chronic sinus issues, coughing fits, severe seasonal allergies, ADHD, bed wetting, snoring, and learning disabilities. When he was diagnosed with learning disabilities at age 10, I started looking into root causes of his symptoms, instead of treating and masking symptoms. I concluded ..... READ MORE
Our family would highly recommend seeing Chris Zombek for Orofacial Myofunctional therapy. My youngest son was born with a tongue and lip tie which we thought was fully corrected when he was a toddler. When he was 9 years old his orthodontist recommended, we see Chris Zombek who is a therapist to help his tongue function and placement. In the past year of seeing Chris Zombek, she has helped my son so much. ..... READ MORE
I have been doing myo-functional therapy with Mrs. Chris Zombek since late April of 2014. I have been working with Mrs. Chris to eliminate my tongue thrust and to close my bite. My orthodontist recommended that I undertake myo-functional therapy to help with this. The therapy consists of many exercises to work specific muscles in the face and abolish bad habits. For me, this experience has been life changing. ..... READ MORE
Chris Zombek is an excellent myofunctional therapist and dental hygienist. She is professional and highly knowledgeable and experienced. Chris is continuously improving her knowledge and expertise in the field of myofunctional therapy and dentistry by regularly attending and completing new training and education courses. I am a male patient and I am 33 years old. Before I started working with Chris, I suffered with chronic TMD, incorrect swallowing pattern, ..... READ MORE
I am a disabled Vietnam vet who suffers from an anxiety disorder due to PTSD. Shortly after my 70th birthday I began experiencing an inability to control my tongue movement. I visited a number of medical specialists and had an MRI done. However, I did not have a definitive diagnosis of this new disorder or any treatment plan to address the problem. My wife began doing research about my symptoms and discovered that what I was experiencing was described as a “tongue thrust”. We then began searching, ...... READ MORE
My 8-year-old son has been seeing Chris Zombek for about 6 months. We have seen so much improvement. Chris is committed to helping. The therapy has been individualized for my son’s specific needs and I am grateful for finding Chris and IMT.
Ms. Chris has been great to work with! She is well connected and knowledgeable about facial muscles and issues encompassing the facial area. She is positive and energetic during sessions, and always willing to go the extra mile to help. I had been to multiple dentists and ENTs before finding someone who was willing to listen to and help address my TMJ issues. I would highly, highly recommend it!
Chris has been amazing to work with. The work she has done with my daughter so far has been life changing and she has been able to help us realize other areas of concern that needed to be addressed and were missed by others for years. So thankful we were referred to Chris and excited to see how she will continue to help our family.
IMT of Maryland has been a wonderful resource for our family. We have been taking my 7 year old for about 8 months now and we have seen so much improvement with her bite and tongue thrust habit. Chris Zombek has a wonderful personality, very professional and is GREAT with kids!
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 ..... READ MORE
We are so happy with the progress that our daughter has achieved in the past 5 months. We were referred to Chris by our orthodontist to address tongue thrust issues as well as an open bite. During the initial assessment, it was identified that she had very low muscle tone in her face as well as her lips causing her jaw to be unstable. The various exercises and techniques taught to our daughter have developed her muscle tone in her face, as well as ..... READ MORE
As a parent of a young patient receiving myo-functional services from this practice for post-frenectomy therapy, the importance of the services provided by Chris have amazed me. Most speech therapists and pediatricians are completely unaware of the necessity of myo-functional therapy, especially post-frenectomy, and explain articulation problems as either unspecified motor-planning delays or they site the ASLHA developmental norms for “normal” speech/sound acquisition patterns. Chris has completely ..... READ MORE
I am grateful to have found Chris to help my daughter when speech therapy was not as successful as I would have liked. Her office was over at hour away from us so commuting for weekly therapy would have been difficult. Fortunately, Chris offered therapy sessions via video. This turned out to be a great ..... READ MORE
We are so glad to have been referred to Chris Zombek. She has been a delight from start to finish. Ever so professional, inspiring, organized and caring; she has helped my son correct his tongue position and help to eliminate the mouth breathing we hadn’t even realized was a problem until we went to the orthodontist for an evaluation for braces. How I wish we had found her sooner! At age 14, my son had suffered ..... READ MORE
I have been taking my 11-year-old daughter to Mrs. Chris for 4 months and have been completely amazed at the transformation I have seen. I took for granted having a tongue that does what it is supposed to do- and didn't realize the impact of the opposite. I am so grateful to Mrs. Chris for shedding light on this issue because if we didn't correct it before orthodontic treatment, we would be back to square one afterward. The exercises work ..... READ MORE
Miss Chris is so fun and enthusiastic about her work! She puts so much time and effort into her patients. She makes very detailed treatment plans and always answered any questions I had! The exercises were fun and rewarding. I not only saw an increase in my tongue strength but also an increase in my facial strength!
Trust me when I say that I had tried everything under the sun to break my son of his thumb sucking habit, which had gone on well beyond the usual age. How fortunate for us that our orthodontist referred us to Chris to address a totally separate tongue thrusting issue. From the first initial telephone conversation, Chris gave me hope that both issues could be resolved. She was awesome ..... READ MORE
The treatment that my daughter has received from Chris Zombeck at Innovative Myo Therapy has been outstanding. Chris has a great upbeat, positive attitude that helps keep kids interested throughout the course of treatment and her office is immaculately clean. After my daughter learned proper tongue placement with the help of myofunctional exercises, her bite was more anatomically correct. Chris was able to show this progress with before and after photos. Ms Chris is a very sweet and nice person. I love coming to her every week.
My name is Kristina and I have been working with Ms. Chris since June of 2016 to get rid of my tongue thrust. She has been very helpful and is very personable and tailors her treatment to each individual patient to ensure that they are as successful as possible! I started out with frequent headaches due to my poor tongue posture and tendency to grind my teeth at night. Since starting this treatment I have experienced a drastic improvement in my tongue placement and headaches, and in addition my bite has closed! These results can be life changing, and without Ms. Chris I would probably still be exploring temporary remedies for my headaches.
