International Journal of Orofacial Myology and Myofunctional Therapy, Volume 37, Issue 1

This article addresses many myths that have persisted over the years in dentistry and orofacial myology regarding the nature of orofacial myofunctional disorders (OMD’s). Myths include (1) the concept that the term “tongue thrusting” includes the res...

This 2011 issue of IJOM celebrates the 40 th Anniversary of the International Association of Orofacial Myology (IAOM) [...]

Objective: evaluate the possible correlation with the radiographic position of the hyoid bone and mandibular angle in lateral radiographs of children with atypical deglutition. Study design: This was an observational study using cephalometric analysi...

These milestones of the history of the International Association of Orofacial Myology (IAOM), its founders and many of the major contributors are presented in this article. Personal reflections are provided by individuals who were instrumental in the...

The use of tools and other objects in articulation therapy has been bundled into new groups of activities called “nonspeech oral motor exercises” (NSOME) and ‘nonspeech oral motor treatments’ (NSOMT) by some authors. The purveyors of these new terms...

The purpose of this study was to verify the inter-rater agreement level as a means of obtaining an efficiency measure of a standard mastication evaluation through video recordings. The studied population included oral breathing children and teenagers...

Disabled children suffer not only from their primary disease, but also from other complications, including food refusal. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the relationship between these conditions and food refusal in disabled children. The e...