Q.What is Myofunctional Therapy?
A. Therapy involves an individualized regimen of therapeutic oral and facial muscle exercise to develop a correct swallowing pattern and appropriate tongue and lip resting postures.

• Habitual mouth breathing.
• Lips apart at rest or during swallows.
• Tongue visibly forward during eating or at rest.
• Facial smirk or grimace during swallow, or using lower lip squeeze to seal off the mouth.
• Open spaces where teeth should be in which a tongue comes through during swallow or at rest.
• A tongue which comes into a cup when you take a drink.
• Golf ball appearance to the chin when swallowing.
• Washing food down with copious amounts of water.
• Speech difficulties.
• Messy eating, excessive drooling, and crumbs frequently in the corners of the mouth.
• Loose, flaccid lip tone, or teeth that are visible in the presence of an arched upper lip.
• Improperly chewed food yielding frequent stomach and gas pains.
• Excessive elongated facial growth.
• A head which seems to bob forward when a swallow completes.