Orofacial Myofunctional Disorder
Do you have an OMD?
An orofacial myofunctional disorder can hinder your ability to eat, swallow, and speak correctly. It can affect your breathing or the way you sleep.
Orofacial Myofunctional Program
Goals of the Program
Our Program is appropriate for children, teens and adults. Program goals are individualized and are meant to create new healthy oral habits. The benefit of healthy habits can include nasal breathing, a proper swallow pattern, favorable resting tongue position and preserving orthodontic results from this program.
Positive Impact: With an Orofacial Myology program, a patient can regain the joy of eating, speaking, breathing, and even sleeping more soundly. Cosmetic improvements can help restore confidence and self-esteem. We believe that everyone deserves to be educated about myofuncitonal disorders and treated if they suffer from OMDs. We endeavor to increase awareness of Orofacial Myology amongst the medical, dental, and academic communities to support the acceptance and progress of this profession world-wide.
Buteyko Breathing
The way we breathe influences the function of our airway, blood circulation, and oxygen release to our body’s cells.
Breathing re-education helps to change disordered breathing patterns into healthy functional ones.
Conditions that interfere with breathing well include asthma, rhinitis, hay fever, snoring, sleep apnea, hormones, and anxiety.
Tracey Brizendine, COM®
Tracey Brizendine, COM®
Tracey Brizendine has been a Registered Dental Hygienist in Austin, TX. since 1983. She has been studying airway disorders since 2008 and how they affect the mouth and a persons total health. As a Certified Orofacial Myologist, offering Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy, her goal is to help families receive the benefits of health this therapy can offer. She has a network of experienced health care professionals with whom she works closely to help patients find the care they need.