Beyond Brushing- Optimised Oral Health Outcomes

Mary Bourke is a Newcastle (NSW, Australia) based chiropractor with qualifications in pediatric chiropractic care. Her wealth of experience and passion for health and wellness improvement in young children starts right from the very early months when the reflexes present in the newborn transfer to those that assist their progressive global development.In this episode, Mary explains the nature of the primitive reflexes, how they integrate during infant development and the importance of allowin...

Darron Goralsky is a Melbourne-based physiotherapist with a thriving specialist practice focusing on treating jaw joint pain and discomfort. Darron recognised early in his career that what he had initially learned about the management of TMJ disorders was insufficient and took on the challenge of continuing his education. That led him down an exciting pathway of discovery and enabled him to provide treatment based on the contributing factors, not just the symptoms. Darron’s understanding...

Dr Estie Bav is Melbourne based dentist who authored the book 'Growing Beautiful Teeth: Simple Strategies for your Child to Have Perfect teeth for Life'. In this episode, we chat about her experience in watching children develop and had the first-hand experience when working abroad, of the ease in which health and wellbeing plus growth and development of the teeth and jaws can be altered- even in one generation.We discussed the areas that parents, carers and health professionals should ...

Sharon Moore is an author, presenter and Speech Pathologist, with 4 decades of clinical experience across a wide range of communication and upper airway disorders. Her focus right now is sharing key research about the importance of upper airway health and sleep, in reference to the global epidemic of sleep problems. Recently, acknowledgement of the role of myofunctional therapy in the management of sleep disorders hails a new era of relevance for therapeutic interventions that support upper a...

In this episode, (part 2 of an interview with the incredible Sharon Moore), Sharon explains more about sleeping problems, the relationship between children’s airways and what to look for in your sleeping child. We discuss the interplay between bony structure and soft tissues and the importance of both in the growing children for airway health.Sharon explains the proven correlation between sleep-disordered breathing in young children, behaviour problems and the impairment to their execut...

Jacqueline Biggar is a Sydney based Oral Health Therapist who recently made the move to offer routine preventive dental services where it is most needed by clients. Jacquie’s mobile dental ‘clinic’ is totally portable and allows clients to receive basic dental care and hygiene services comfort and confines of their own home or care facility. Every dental clinician acknowledges that are clients (especially older clients) are often unable to access traditional dental visits for routine or...

Have you ever asked yourself the question ‘what exactly is Orofacial Myology’ or ‘what does an Orofacial Myologist do? Orofacial Myologists are registered allied health practitioners who already hold extensive knowledge and familiarity with the head and neck and who have undertaken further (and ongoing) study to combine their pre-existing knowledge and experience to offer functional assistance for clients. In this episode, I explain how orofacial myofunctional therapy can be an important...

Tongue ties, (tethered oral tissues or restricted oral frenums) have been present and acknowledged as a concern as far back as the Biblical times. However, the ramifications of not recognising the impact for the patient is gaining greater attention from many different sectors of health care and especially now that there is a great understanding of how restrictions can impact the day to day life of those who are affected.In this interview, I chat with chiropractor, Dr Stevanie Bahnerth and rel...

So when has the quality of your sleep been a concern for your dental practitioner?Sahil Bareja is a dental clinician and has his masters in sleep medicine. In this episode, I chat with Sahil about this area of oral health care and how we are seeing huge wellness gains in our clients when the ‘red flags’ are noticed and the clients are steered in the right direction.Since the discovery that all not all teeth grinding stress-related, and that there are proven associations between sleep and othe...

The insight of a general dentist with a mind that never stopped learning (and discovering) is now playing a significant role in helping a wide range of the population. When Dr Kevin Bourke, a Newcastle (Australia) based practitioner invented a chewing device in the 1960's he was ahead of his time. His insight then into the orofacial myofunctional world is playing out today into the lives of young and old and in this episode, I chat with his daughter and CEO of Myo Munchee Australia Dr Mary Bo...