The following list reflects different conditions that are referred for therapy:
- Sucking habits
- Parafunctional habits
- Mouth breathing
- Lip incompetence-the inability to close the lips without muscle strain
- Drooling
- Chapped lips
- Red swollen gums; excess plaque
- Incorrect tongue posture at rest
- Sleep-disordered breathing
- Bruxism-clenching or grinding the teeth in other than normal function
- Jaw muscle pain
- Cracking or fracturing teeth
- Tongue thrust
- Incorrect relationship between the upper and lower arches
- Malocclusion or crooked teeth
- Orthodontic/orthognathic surgical relapse
- Eating dysfunction
- Choking or aspiration
- Lazy speech muscles
Anyone or a number of specialists may recognize a problem in a child, adolescent, or adult and want the patient to go through orofacial myofunctional therapy.
