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Episode 309: 5 Airway Health Tips for Children with Hallie Bulkin, MA CCC-SLP, CMT®, CPFT™

3 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A short clip from a YouTube episode in which Hallie Bulkin emphasizes early, airway-focused dental and orthodontic assessment for children. She recommends seeing airway-centric dentists/orthodontists as early as age 2 (when two-year molars erupt) and commonly by age 5, rather than waiting until ages 7–9. Bulkin advocates earlier palatal expansion and myofunctional therapy to support airway function and prevent larger problems later.

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There are a lot of airway friendly dentists, airway centric dentists and orthodontists. Right. That can basically look at and assess jaw growth, breathing, sleep patterns. Some of them are doing this as young as age two, when the two year molars are in. Others are maybe closer to age 5, you know, but either way, if you can get in there earlier than your traditional ortho, which is like seven, nine years of age, and so on and so forth, that's going to be so helpful to the child's airway. Palatal expansion and myofunctional therapy can happen at earlier ages and can support better airway function. And that is super, super critical. So do not wait for all the adult teeth to come in. That's like old news, because the earlier intervention that you do can prevent bigger issues later.