Helpful Videos
Frenum Freedom
Simple explanation as to the importance of checking infants and children for tongue and lip ties.
What Happens To Your Brain and Body if You Don’t Get Sleep
Why we sleep
Mouth Breathing in Children from Dr. German Ramirez
Dr. German Ramirez, a world expert in orthodontics and pediatrics, put together an amazing video explaining on patients develop crooked teeth and how this can be prevented and treated. Often times breathing is not evaluated and this video illustrates the importance of nasal breathing.
The Story of Headgear
Dr Karen Bonuck on Sleep Disordered Breathing
Finding Connor Deegan
For more information about children who are sleepy, snore, or have been diagnosed with ADHD, please visit The American Academy of Physiological Medicine and …
One more reason to get a good night’s sleep
The brain uses a quarter of the body’s entire energy supply, yet only accounts for about two percent of the body’s mass. So how does this unique organ receiv…
Helpful Websites
- Child Airway Growth and Development + Signs/Symptoms of Sleep Disorders – American Academy of Physiological Medicine & Dentistry (AAPMD)
- About Myofunctional Therapy – Academy of Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy
- More Myofunctional Therapy Information – The Breathe Institute
- About tongue-tie releases (the functional frenuloplasty) – The Breathe Institute
- Infant Tongue-Tie FAQ’s
- Vitamin D, Sleep, and the Gut – The RightSleep® Protocol from Dr. Stasha Gominak
Helpful Scientific Articles
MARPE / Skeletal Expansion
- Evolution, current status, and future trends of maxillary skeletal expansion: a bibliometric analysis
- Long-term assessment of conventional and mini-screw assisted rapid palatal expansion on the nasal cavity
- Breathing changes following mini-implant supported maxillary skeletal expander treatment in late adolescent or adult patients: Assessment of objective and subjective functional breathing changes
- Assessment of respiratory muscle strength and airflow before and after micro-implant-assisted rapid palatal expansion
- Mini-implant assisted rapid palatal expansion (MARPE) effects on adult obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and quality of life: a multi-center prospective controlled trial
- The short- and long-term changes of upper airway volume and alar in nongrowing patients treated with MARPE: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Long-term effects of MARPE on airway
- Interest of MARPE on the upper airway in growing patients: a systematic review
- Does MARPE influence upper airway in adult patients? A scoping review
- Persistent pediatric obstructive sleep apnea treated with skeletal MARPE
- Effect of Anchorage Modifications on the Efficacy of MARPE: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- Investigation of the effects of MARPE on airflow in the upper airway of an adult patient with OSA
Pediatric Sleep Apnea and Underdeveloped Jaws
- Persistent pediatric obstructive sleep apnea treated with MARPE
- A century of adenotonsillectomy’s failure to fully resolve sleep-disordered breathing: mild malocclusions are maybe not so mild?
- Prevalence of malocclusions and oral dysfunctions in children with persistent sleep-disordered breathing after adenotonsillectomy in the long term
- Predictors of Persistent Sleep Apnea After Surgery in Children Younger Than 3 Years
- Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea and the Critical Role of Oral-Facial Growth: Evidences
- Mouth breathing, “nasal disuse,” and pediatric sleep-disordered breathing
- Scientific American – Why We Have So Many Problems with Our Teeth
- The Jaw Epidemic: Recognition, Origins, Cures, and Prevention
- Craniofacial Signs, Symptoms, and Orthodontic Objectives of Pediatric Sleep Apnea
- The relief of nasal obstruction by orthodontia—A plea for early recognition and correction of faulty maxillary development
- Craniofacial morphological characteristics in children with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
- Treatment Outcomes of Adenotonsillectomy for Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Prospective Longitudinal Study
- Sleep-Disordered Breathing, Orofacial Growth, and Prevention of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
- Recognizing Poor Sleep Quality Factors During Oral Health Evaluations
- Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Where Do We Stand?
- A Frequent Phenotype for Paediatric Sleep Apnoea: Short Lingual Frenulum
- Maxillary Protraction to Treat Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Maxillary Retrusion: A Preliminary Report
- Sleep-Disordered Breathing in a Population-Based Cohort: Behavioral Outcomes at 4 and 7 Years
- The Influence of Snoring, Mouth-Breathing and Apnoea on Facial Morphology
- The Effect of Mode of Breathing on Craniofacial Growth
Infant Tongue-Tie
Vitamin D
- Vitamin D Deficiency During Pregnancy and Autism Spectrum Disorders Development
- Sleep and Dreaming
- The Human Microbiome: Me, Myself, and Us
- The World Epidemic of Sleep Disorders is Linked to Vitamin D Deficiency
- Vitamin D Deficiency Changes the Intestinal Microbiome Reducing B Vitamin Production in the Gut
- The Commensal Relationship of the Normal Human Colonic Microbiome
- Sleep, Vitamin D, and the Microbiome – Implications for Brain Health
Helpful Books
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Sleep Wrecked Kids: Helping parents raise happy, healthy kids, one sleep at a time
Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic
Tongue-Tied: How a Tiny String Under the Tongue Impacts Nursing, Speech, Feeding, and More
Nobody Ever Told Me (or my Mother) That!: Everything from Bottles and Breathing to Healthy Speech Development
Gasp!: Airway Health – The Hidden Path To Wellness
Feed Your Baby and Toddler Right: Early eating and drinking skills encourage the best development