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Episode 320: The Impact of Oral Restrictions on Growth and Development with Dr. Annie Babb, DDS

17 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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This YouTube interview (Episode 320, hosted/created by Hallie Bulkin, posted 2025-06-17) features discussion about oral restrictions, growth, and development with Dr. Annie Babb, DDS. The provided excerpt is a conversational remark (SPEAKER A) advocating gentle bodywork—including craniosacral approaches—for older children, noting that such non‑aggressive techniques can produce meaningful physical changes and that parents may resist due to busy schedules and expectations that more forceful interventions (surgery, aggressive manual techniques) are required.

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I would love for the older kids to go and do bodywork. They don't do as much body work usually, as the babies. I feel like those families are always, like, on it. But to convince some of the older parents, granted, I mean, they're an ortho. They're doing myo. They're doing, like, they have so much going on and their kids are in a bunch of activities. But I've tried to explain, like, sometimes, yeah, when kids are locked up like that from expansion. Not that was ever my focus, but this could help. And it's very gentle. And it seems like, how could this do anything? But it does. Like, we don't need to always be so aggressive and forceful for things to change in our bodies. And I think that's hard for people to understand. It doesn't always have to be a surgery. It doesn't always have to be some, like, aggressive massaging or cracking of the bones or it can be very gentle to get a lot of changes, and those changes can help a lot of things. Like, it just. I think we have moved away from listening to our bodies a bit, and I think that specifically, like, craniosacral kind of pulls back and.