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Episode 308: Supporting Airway Health with Kristina Wolf, MS, DMD

2 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Hallie Bulkin. This content was uploaded by Hallie Bulkin. This is a YouTube episode titled "Episode 308: Supporting Airway Health with Kristina Wolf, MS, DMD" (created 2025-03-02T14:00:36Z). The excerpt is an English-speaking clinical/educational segment (spoken by a single speaker) describing how a myofunctional appliance works together with a clear aligner system: an upper lip shield to stimulate the orbicularis oris for proper lip closure and nasal breathing, and a lingual ramp that contacts pins on the clear aligner to transmit forces to the mid-palatal and other maxillary sutures during mastication, with the goal of stimulating sutural remodeling and supporting airway/maxillary development.

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And so when we look at the myofunctional appliance and how it works with that, Right. We have the upper lip shield, Right. Like you would see, similarly to a lot of these things, to stimulate the muscles. Right. Orbiculars oris for proper lip closure so that we can get proper nasal breathing. But we also have this lingual ramp that actually pushes up against those pins that were on the clear aligner system. So they work together. Right. So as you're masticating and basically contracting on this myofunctional appliance, it's p pushing up against this clear aligner, and that's pushing on those palatal suture errors, causing deformation along those clear aligners. So that we're stimulating. Right. Not only the mid palatal suture, but all the sutures on the maxilla, because there's more than a singular suture along the maxilla that we need to address. Okay.