Myofunctional Therapy & Paediatric OSA

• Acquired knowledge and understanding of the evidenced-based literature associated with functional appliances
• Be able to identify oroficial myfunctional disorders and their relationship to craniofacial morphology and sleep-disordered breathing
• Be able to appraise the potential of myofunctional therapy alone or in combination therapy targeted to muscle phenotypes in a precision medicine model
• Learn the impact of restricted frenulae beyond speech and feeding impairment

• Review of orofacial myofunctional disorders
• Definition, causes, and overview of Pediatric sleep-disordered breathing
• Myofunctional therapy to correct muscle imbalance
• Combination therapy
• Frenum attachment and it's impact
• Tongue tie and lip tie
• Planas composite build-ups for crossbites
• Mouth breathing patterns
• Relationship between tongue restriction, posture, and sleep-disordered breathing
• Impact of orofacial myofunctional therapy on orofacial tonus and the oropharyngeal wall
• Clinical decision-making model to implement OMT in children
• Monitoring devices / polysomnography
• Case series and literature reviews on myofunctional therapy and Paediatric OSA
• Arch development in Primary Dentition

• Review of module presentation materials
• Extended reading from ABO reading list
• Reflection on Orthodontic treatment in clinical practice
• Regular online group journal club and clinical discussions
• Independent study

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