Renata Nehme MYO MOVES

Airway health is connected to the skull, brain, sinuses, oral function, posture, and nervous system regulation. Airway health is often discussed through the lens of sleep apnea, mouth breathing, tongue posture, orthodontics, and craniofacial growth. But what if the airway conversation is even bigger than that? What if airway dysfunction is also connected to brain function, mental health, chronic pain, autoimmune patterns, digestive issues, dysautonomia, and complex disease? In an Airway...

Airway health is connected to sensory processing, motor planning, posture, breathing, and regulation. Airway health is never just about the airway. Patients who struggle with mouth breathing, sleep-disordered breathing, tongue dysfunction, feeding challenges, oral restrictions, or myofunctional disorders may also present with sensory processing difficulties, poor motor planning, postural challenges, attention concerns, emotional dysregulation, and developmental delays. For healthcare...

Airway health begins before birth, and maternal sleep quality can influence both mother and baby. Airway health does not begin in childhood. It begins before birth. In an Airway Circle Thursday Night Live presentation, Dr. Mark Cannon shared a powerful message for healthcare professionals: pregnancy-induced sleep apnea, oral-systemic health, the maternal microbiome, periodontal inflammation, and airway development are deeply connected. For dentists, hygienists, myofunctional therapists,...