Oral myology is the postural training of the tongue, lips and cheeks. This technique is used to retrain swallowing patterns or in speech therapy. Many animals have longer and more flexible tongues than humans. ... A womans lips with various kinds of lipstick applied. ... Look up Cheek in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The Cheeks are the fleshy area of the face below the eyes and between the nose and the left or right ear, the skin being suspended by the chin and the yaws. ... Speech therapy is the corrective or rehabilitative treatment of physical and/or cognitive deficits/disorders resulting in difficulty with verbal communication. ...
Oral Myofunctional Disorders (OMD's), are differences in the position or function of the muscles of the face and/or mouth, including the lips and tongue.
"Oral myofunctional disorder" may be the preferred term since it includes the concept of abnormal/incorrect tongue placement and lip movement for swallowing, as well as labial and lingual rest posture differences, speech differences, oral habits such as thumb/finger sucking, and structural abnormalities.
A treatment approach known as oral myofunctional therapy has been shown to be effective in correcting oral myofunctional disorders such as tongue thrust swallow, improper tongue and mouth resting posture, improper use of muscles of the mouth, tongue, and lips for chewing and swallowing, and late thumb/finger sucking habits.
Undoubtedly, myology has become one of the key disciplines in clinical research worldwide.
Because of its rich and excellent program, Myology 2005 will review the considerable progress at the international level in recent years in functional genomics, biology and physiology of the muscular system, as well as in the development of innovative therapies for neuromuscular diseases.
Myology, thanks to the vigorous action of AFM and the very high quality of the concerned world scientific community, is now a discipline of its own.
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