Sleep - its importance and for a child’s holistic growth and wellbeing : Bunny Dental Clinic
Posted on: 06/Sep/2022 5:40:35 PM
Sleep Is crazy important part of growth and development as well as overall health and wellbeing! So, it’s important to know what’s happening especially if our child has other concerns like ear infection / tonsilitis / tooth decay / digestive disturbances / anxiety / poor concentration.
Every mouth has story:
Mouth is interconnected with ear, air way, good quality of way, good way, good speech
Sleep disordered breathing or obstructive sleep disordered breathing is defined as a syndrome of upper air dysfunction during sleep.
Important information about facial muscle exercise therapy!!
Orofacial Myology, also known as orofacial myofunctional therapy, is described as “the study and treatment of the oral and facial muscles as they relate to speech, dentition, chewing/bolus collection, swallowing, and overall mental and physical health.”
We, dentists to evaluate, diagnose, and treat orofacial myology disorders. Among the areas covered are tongue tie (ankyloglossia) determination, oral habit elimination such as thumb sucking, the chewing and swallowing process in detail, “tongue thrust,” airway concerns, speech articulation connections, relationship to orthodontics, and much more.
Thus, sleep disordered breathing would affect the sleep quality of the kid. There would also be issues in the development of jaws plus airway development etc.
What Are Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders (OMD)?
An orofacial myofunctional disorder (OMD) is when there is an abnormal lip, jaw, or tongue position during rest, swallowing or speech. You may also see this when there are prolonged oral habits, like thumb or finger sucking.
OMD can be caused by:
- Upper airway obstruction
- Chronic finger or thumb sucking
- Extended pacifier or bottle use
- Orofacial muscular and structural differences
- Genetics
Signs and Symptoms
- Speech distortion, particularly a frontal lisp
- Chronic open mouth positioning
- Dental abnormalities, such as overjet and open bite
- Tongue thrust: when the tongue pushes against or between the teeth during speech or swallowing
How does your child sleep? - Some things to look out for
- Are they restless?
- Sleep talking?
- Drooling?
- Sweating?
- Teeth grinding?
- Coughing?
- Snoring?
- Nosy breathing?
- Do they wake up through the night?
- Is their mouth open?
- Do they stop breathing?
The bones present in the jaws of the baby would grow well and for that breast feeding and chewing plays an important role. Wisdom teeth coming out have been an issue in the kids and shrinking in the jaw size is the main reason. For removing the wisdom teeth, surgery is necessary. Root cause of the issue gets treated with myo-functional therapy sessions.
Thus the jaw bone growth and development monitored with monitored what about how you eat?
Should we chew on both sides of the mouth at the sametimeuntil the food soft and mushy easy to swallow. Both chewing and swallowing should happen with lips together
Proper chewing and swallowing pattern support muscle strength, nasal breathing, and symmetrical development of the mouth and face.
For proper teeth alignment, airways play a huge role and the fact is that improper alignment of teeth can be due to improper functioning of the facial muscles. To correct the teeth alignment, it is not necessary to wait till the kid turns 13 years of age. It is important to start early to avoid braces in the kids. The jaw size in the babies has reduced due to change in food habits and soft food concept of baby food.
The Bunny Teeth laser dental clinic
72, Bazullah Rd, Parthasarathi Puram,
T. Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600017.
For contact us:
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