May is Mouth Breathing Awareness Month!
That means over the next month, I'll posting on social media trying to spread the word, and I've asked my amazing MyoMentor Graduates to help me out.
MyoMentor students and graduates are some of the most passionate dental and healthcare professionals I know, and many of them have struggled with their own myofunctional symptoms - mouth breathing, tongue-tie, sleep disordered breathing, and more.
So I'll be interviewing THEM to share their stories and highlight what they are doing in their practices and communities to help their patients.
Today I interviewed Felicia Morris, a hygienist and myofunctional therapist from Gulfport Mississippi. She shared the story about how "she was always the sick kid in the family" and that she struggled with allergies and breathing and her tonsils and adenoids taken out when she was five years old.
As an adult she's struggled with TMJ tension, clenching, grinding, and her mind was blown when she started learning that these symptoms were connected to mouth breathing and tongue posture.
Now Felicia's big passion is helping kids get treated early. She struggled breastfeeding her daughter and because of "mother's intuition" knew there was a tongue-tie even though all of the medical professionals around her told her it was just her milk supply that was the issue.
I love Felicia's passion and enthusiasm! She is such an amazing resource for families in Mississippi! Please find her and reach out. Felicia and the dental practice where she works are leading the way in the gulf coast area for myofunctional therapy and airway dentistry.
www.gcdentalcare.com/
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Email : felicia.ross.3@gmail.com
You can also follow the Mouth Breathing Awareness Campaign on my Facebook and Instagram pages here:
/ sarahkhornsby
/ sarah_k_hornsby
23 май 2020
