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Why the Medical Silo Approach Fails Airway Kids 🛑

19 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue Hallie Bulkin argues that the human body, especially a child's airway, should be viewed as a creative, artistic masterpiece that science must complement rather than oppose. She critiques the siloed mindset where orthodontists, myofunctional therapists, speech‑language pathologists, and ENTs each claim ownership of the airway. Instead, she advocates a unified, child‑centric approach where all practitioners collaborate to support the child's full physical and mental development, enabling the child to reach their full potential in society.

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The body is the most creative and artistic masterpiece on the planet. And then we combine that with what we know from science, and those two things should complement each other, not work against each other. They should be working together. And that's how I feel that practitioners should be looking at the, especially these little children. It's, it's not the orthodontist's airway or the myofunctional therapist's airway or the SLP's airway or the ENT's airway. It's that child's airway and it belongs to them. We're just all there to assist them to get the most out of it so that child can grow to their full potential. And as I mentioned earlier, develop both mentally and physically into a good quality human being that can be contributory and, uh, productive in society and in life.