Course Synopsis

What to Expect:

• Training for normal oral functions
• Aiming for good facial development
• Preventing oral habits
• Better understand each device’s application and selection, utilize the wheel or consult support services.

Functional Education with Myofunctional Appliances have been shown to provide a therapy for encouraging normal functions of lip relationship, correct tongue position and normal breathing, resulting to good development of occlusion in the primary and mixed dentition, and as a support for orthodontic treatment in the permanent dentition. This therapy is integral in the treatment of malocclusion because it addresses the muscles and functions that influence the development of the arch forms and how they relate with each other. To realize its significance and effects is the aim of this presentation, which will include the following topics: i. Functional Education and normal development ii. Myofunctional appliances as a therapy for functional education iii. Myofunctional appliances and Case discussions iv. Published studies showing the treatment effects of Myofunctional appliances. v. Protocol on the daily use of Myofunctional appliances.

For more information, please contact +65 9018 8409 or email desmond@clearsmile.asia

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