Shining an interdisciplinary spotlight on prevention, innovative practices and advances in Orofacial Myofunctional Sciences and Therapy.
Our very first congress took place on September 9-13, 2015 in Los Angeles, California at the Historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel
Congress Learning Outcomes
Presented by the Academy of Applied Myofunctional Sciences
• Interpret information from world leaders in their fields about applications of myofunctional sciences and therapy, from the first day of life on, involving breast feeding, weaning, chewing, swallowing, dentition, occlusion and other orofacial functions.
• Identify teamwork strategies to treat people with sleep disorders, craniofacial pain, complex gnathological cases, obesity and much more.
• Describe the contribution of other health-related professionals in the care of our patients.
• Identify preventive measures that can be implemented to promote the optimal growth and development of happy and healthy children.
• Analyze the most updated studies in the field of muscle functions and integrated orofacial functions, from different perspectives.
A word from our executive director and chairman
This Congress will be a challenge to certainties. We will present orofacial and nasal pharyngeal structures and functions from multiple, often unfamiliar perspectives, imperative to true patient care. To achieve this goal, a team of international and multidisciplinary presenters has been assembled, all eager to share their knowledge with one another and their audience. Structures and functions will be analyzed from the historical perspective of the human race, as well as within the context of overall posture. Prevention, diagnosis and therapy of orofacial myofunctional disorders will be analyzed and implemented. Multiple presenters will unveil the lasting implications of a seemingly small anatomical feature such as a restricted lingual frenum. Nasal breathing as the foundation for therapy will be front and center, as its supposed to be.
Application of myofunctional therapy in conditions such as sleep disorders and facial pain will be discussed by some of the most influential researchers of our time. Many other presentation subjects are sure to pique the attendees interest. Multiple panel discussions will allow audience participation, where questions and answers are encouraged to flow into discussion. Master classes and workshops will provide a much needed depth of knowledge and confidence in innovative therapy solutions for orofacial myofunctional disorders. Poster sessions will allow for the sharing of current research, as well as professional practice information that would typically be confined to a specific specialty's designated convention (such as speech-language pathology or dentistry). Multiple networking opportunities will facilitate exchanges among professionals in a relaxed and nurturing environment.
Last but not least, the gala brought together various types of supporters, from therapists to patients to researchers, with the common goal to push an agenda of public awareness and education, scaffolding other existing education proposals and creating brand new ones.
LIST OF SPEAKERS
Esther Bianchini, PhD (BRA)
Lecture: Myofunctional Therapy and Sleep Disordered Breathing: New Standards of Care for Snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Course: TMJ and facial pain – Orofacial myofunctional approach
Kevin Boyd, DDS (USA)
Orofacial myofunctional disorders, malocclusion phenotypes and Non-communicable disease: An evolutionary perspective
Heather Clark, PhD, SLP (USA)
Motor learning and neuromuscular principles: Applications to myofunctional disorder
Ariana Ebrahimian, DDS
Orthotropics: Improving the Standard of Care
Antonio Ferrante, MD, DDS (ITA)
The importance of myofunctional therapy for restoration of the brain function
Michael Gelb, DDS (USA)
Airway centric dentistry
Catherine Watson Genna, IBCLC (USA)
Organization of tongue movements during breastfeeding, before and after frenotomy
Thierry Gouzland, PT, OMT (FRA)
Contribution of Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy in an Orthognathic Surgery Team
Tess Graham, PT, BBE (AUS)
Breathing retraining: Enhancing efficacy of myofunctional therapy and sleep medicine
Christian Guilleminault, MD, DBiol (USA)
1. Sleep-disordered-breathing in children and myofunctional therapy
2. Breathing Re-education and Myofunctional Therapy: Towards Restoration of Continuous Nasal Breathing as the Ultimate Treatment Goal in Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea
3. Short Lingual Frenulum and Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children
William Hang, DDS (USA)
AIRWAY-kening orthodontics & myofunctional therapy working together to improve/save lives
Alison Hazelbaker, PhD, IBCLC, FILCA, CST, RCST -Panelist
Gabor Hermann, DDS (HUN)
Paradigm shift in orthodontics – Introduction to the modern functional orthodontics
Steven Hou, DDS (USA)
Two novel and unpublished cephalometric factors in the diagnosis of OSA
Miho Imamura, PhD, DDS (JPN)
Long term stability for orthodontic cases with MFT
Triin Jagomägi, MD, DDS (EST) Panelist
Virginia Johnson, DO (USA)
Integrating myo-functional diagnosis into whole patient care: Uncovering the causes of many chronic disease syndromes
Hilton Justino, PhD (BRA)
Panelist
Pejman Katiraei, DO (USA)
An integrative physiological approach to myofunctional disorders
Lawrence Kotlow, DDS (USA)
Lecture: How breastfeeding and tongue-ties impact OSA
Course: Frenum Surgery Master Class
Darius Loghmanee, MD FAAP FAASM
Panelist
Irene Marchesan, PhD, SLP (BRA)
Lecture: Interference of tongue with the orofacial functions
Course: Restricted lingual frenum: Diagnosis and management
Derek Mahony, BDS(Syd), MScOrth(Lon), MOrthRCS(Eng)
Developing an ideal arch form in orthodontics
Chele Marmet (USA)
Panelist
Patrick Mckeown, MA, BBE (IRL)
Buteyko Method: Practical workshop for sleep disorders & myofunctional therapy
Joy Moeller, BS, RDH (USA)
Myofunctional therapy in children 0-5 years of age
James G Murphy, MD
Orofacial myofunctional disorders, malocclusion phenotypes and Non-communicable disease: An evolutionary perspective
Viet Nghiem, DDS (USA)
Two novel and unpublished cephalometric factors in the diagnosis of OSA
Giovanni Olivi, MD, DDS & Maria Daniela Genovese MD, DDS (ITA)
Lecture: Relationship between ankyloglossia, anatomical and functional alterations and body posture
Course: Frenum Surgery Master Class
James Redd, DDS
Personal experiences with Orthotropics and Myofunctional Therapy
Mariano Rocabado, PT, DPT, ccTT (CHL)
The Functional Matrix: Craniofacial Skeletal Growth, Muscular Transformation, and Myofunctional Therapy; Structural Evidences and a Call for Myofunctional Therapy In Adolescent Intervention
Nancy Rothstein, MBA (USA)
Sleep: The best preventive medicine
David Rubenstein, PhD (USA)
The role of chronic stress in airway encroachment
Ricardo Santos, SLP, MSc, PhD (PRT)
Myofunctional Therapy in Obstructive Sleep Apnea: What More Do We Need To Do?
Carla Stecco, MD (ITA)
Lecture: Role of deep fasciae in proprioception and peripheral motor coordination
Course: Role of the fasciae in head and neck pain
Franklin Susanibar, MSLP (PER)
Protocol for the phonoaudiological assessment of breathing with scores (PROPABS)
Michael Mew, BDS (Lond), MSc (Orth) (UK)
Lecture: Craniofacial dystrophy, a possible syndrome?
Course: Introduction to orthotropics and craniofacial dystrophy
DOWNLOAD THE 2015 CONGRESS PROGRAM!
Click on the link below to download a PDF format of our very first congress' program that took place in Los Angeles, CA. 2015
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AAMS First Hippocrates Award Gala
Celebrates our leaders who fight to make the world a better place, spotlighting distinguished achievement and fund raising objectives of the AAMS.
Our fledgling society has large ambitions. We want all who suffer from orofacial myofunctional disorders to have access to care. This will require drastic changes in established standards of care, treatment and market paradigms, and a reorientation of healthcare silos towards an allied, patient centric approach. For the AAMS to become an effective catalyst of change, funding research, creating public health initiatives, and creating standards that bring the profound treatment modality of myofunctional therapy to a larger audience will require not just attendance at meetings, conferences, galas and the like. We need engagement with key influencers and to build out programs that will affect change. This will take a great deal of money to accomplish and it is our hope that you will take an active role in contributing and helping us raise funds. Our honorees’ work that will be spotlighted, the patients’ stories you will hear, and the 3 AAMS initiatives that will be introduced will, we hope, help us tell part of the story about why this society was created and our commitment to create and execute on stategies that will not just move the needle in changing health paradigms, but deliver real results that will postiviely impact millions of lives.
We have reached a critical mass of research showing the effectiveness of myofunctional therapy to address intractable problems that plague the modern world. The honorees at the gala tonight have had a leading role in this work. Helping to tell their stories is a privileged role for me and one that I am honored to be a part of. We face many crises related to our health. The epidemics of obstructive sleep apnea and ADHD wreak havoc on our children, who become our adults; the co-morbid disorders that result have ripple effects across these patients' families, communities, and the economies of nations as a whole.
