318 Pediatric Myofunctional Intervention With Sarah Hornsby

Please Leave a Review! On this episode of A Tale of Two Hygienists repeat guest, therapist, speaker, mentor, and entrepreneur Sarah Hornsby, RDH joins us in honor of Children's Dental Health Month to talk about myofunctional intervention in our pediatric patients!  This episode has FREE CE! Be sure to view your state guidelines to ensure this CE is applicable in your State. You can view all episodes with Free CE here. Take the CE course for this episode HERE Interview Starts: 06:45.985 Episode Highlights In the media  Kotlow's free-tongue measurement grading scale Tongue range of motion ratio Communicating with parents  Lifelong childhood conversations Therapy options You've identified a tongue tie: next steps Quotes "How many of us have had an opportunity to teach the next generation and promote the profession?"   "Sometimes kids don't have obvious signs."    "If weight gain is the only qualifier you are looking at, a lot of babies are going to be 'fine'."    "Two tongue tied parents will also likely lead to a tongue tied baby."    "The parent has to resonate with it or they are not going to do the work."    "As an individual goes through all stages of growth and development there is a chance for relapse."    "When you are mouth breathing your body is in a state of fight or flight."    "Suturing is the modern way to do tongue tie surgery."    "Suturing is critical to success."    "What other part of your body would you do surgery on and not close the wound?"    "Everything we see in kids we see in adults, but they are at the age we can make changes."    "Baby teeth should all have primate spacing, you should be able to fit a dime or nickel between every tooth and we hardly see that anymore."    Links  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarah_k_hornsby/  Websites: www.myfaceology.com  www.myomentor.com  www.sarahkhornsby.com  Breathe Institute: https://www.thebreatheinstitute.com/   Find Sarah on our other episodes! 209, 210, 211, 212 and 258    A Tale of Two Hygienists Podcast A Tale of Two Hygienists homepage  AToTH on Facebook  AToTH on Instagram AToTH on LinkedIn

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