Patrick McKeown is a researcher, clinician, President of Buteyko Professionals International, designer of the Myotape and an international best-selling author. His book, The Oxygen Advantage describes multiple physiologic advantages of nasal breathing over mouth breathing, the consequences of which disrupts cranio-facial-respiratory growth and development. Patrick is also widely regarded as one of the world’s leading breathing re-education experts.

Lecture Topic

Noses are for breathing, mouths are for eating 

Lecture Summary

This 60-minute presentation builds on the previous webinar titled “Breathing Disordered Sleep-Why Dentists”, and will briefly cover the consequences of the mouth breathing pandemic.

We will explore how a low tongue posture and dysfunctional swallowing patterns results in narrow maxillary arches, longer faces, tongue thrusts, and crowded malocclusions. 

This lecture will then make a strong case as to why upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS), also associated with micro-arousals during sleep can produce classic TMD-like symptoms, such as chronic fatigue, non-refreshing sleep, disrupted sleep, bruxism, morning headaches, and daytime performance impairment.

Following this webinar, it will be clear to you what steps you must take in your Breathing re-education journey for you, your family and your patients.