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What Color is Your Airway?
“Oral health is more than healthy teeth.” - US Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona(1). Pain, fatigue, and insomnia drive patients to doctors, and heart disease and cancer head the list of America’s leading killers (2). Lots of advice on diet, exercise, and stress...
Tooth Eruptions!
Delayed Tooth Eruption Case “I want braces, and I want them NOW!” - M.C. 6 1/2 years old, Whole Health Kids Patient MC was 6 1/2 years old, and had been pestering her mom for nearly a year. She was becoming so self-conscious that “she was too shy to smile”,...
The Autism-Thyroid Link
Mothers with low maternal thyroid hormone while pregnant were 3,89 X more likely to have an autistic child. Children’s health starts with mother’s health. A woman low on iodine risks having children with low intelligence, short stature, underdeveloped jaws, and...
Could a Sleeping-Disorder be the Cause of Weight Gain?
Excess weight is a well-established predictor of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), which true across the world: US, Australia, Europe, and Asia Dr. Liao, with patient’s permission, shares the experiences of other patients to assist those with similar symptoms....
A Natural Face-Lift?
Natural Face-Lift with Oral-Facial Myo-Functional Therapy What factors decide your face and smile? The answer is much more than genes. What can influence weak chin, buck teeth, underbite, overbite, open bite, long “horsey” face, or squat “bull dog” face? The answer...
The Tell Tale Tongue
Your tongue is a major player in your facial appearance and dental alignment. The tongue’s form and function should be part of a holistic mouth checkup. A normal tongue is agile, and free to move upward and backward to serve Nature’s palatal expander. An...
Baby-Led Weaning
For Better Dental-Facial Development Malocclusion literally means bad bite, which can show up in children as crowded or buck teeth, weak chin, deep overbite, open bite, under bite, finger sucking, teeth grinding. Adults with malocclusion often suffer neck pain,...
Oral-Facial MyoFunctional Therapy
ORAL-FACIAL MYOFUNCTIONAL THERAPY ALSO KNOWN AS TONGUE THRUST THERAPY A NEW AND IMPORTANT TREATMENT IN OUR OFFICE Using the muscles of the mouth and face is as natural to us as breathing, but for a high percentage of the population the muscles are being used...
Stress-Brain-Mouth-Connections
Dr. Liao spoke at the Stress-Less Living Expo on the topic of Stress-Mouth Connections and Solutions. He cited studies linking stress-mood-sleep, and his own cases on head-neck-jaw pain, teeth grinding, sleep-related mood and breathing disorders. "Lessons from...
Is Your Sleep Partner At Risk For A Heart Attack?
Oral Signs Of A Heart Attack SG, a patient of Dr. Liao's, was a hard-working lawyer who biked to work. One morning, while his wife was expecting their first child, he had a heart attack. He was 41 years old. Sudden death can be the first sign of a heart attack for...