The Pros and Cons of Myofunctional Therapy: "Emerging Specialty"

Marjorie L. Snow

doi:10.52010/ijom.1983.9.3.4

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1 November 1983

The Pros and Cons of Myofunctional Therapy: "Emerging Specialty"

Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Kalamazoo, MI 49009, USA

Int. J. Orofac. Myol. Myofunct. Ther.1983, 9(3), 17-20;https://doi.org/10.52010/ijom.1983.9.3.4

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For some people the words myofunctional therapy conjure up images of tent shows and snake-oil salesmen, hucksters and charlatans selling pearl buttons on a string for outrageous sums of money, and all of them advocating a costly and lengthy pseudotreatment for a problem that does not exist [...]

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