Assessment, Prevention and Treatment identified in older children, teenagers and adults, a multidisciplinary approach of their treatment would ensure the best care results, by involving the orthodontist, the orofacial myologist, the dental hygienist and other professionals such as ear-nose-throat specialists, allergists and osteopathic physicians to name a few. With the unprecedented expansion of medical knowledge and the need to become highly specialized, medical and health professionals are often unaware of the contributions offered by another disciplines in the treatment of patients with multiple disorders. For instance, a speech pathologist might find it difficult to address the correction of certain speech sounds like /s, z/ or /ch, j, sh/ when the child has no habitual nasal breathing, no lip competence, has an excessive anterior overjet or wears a bulky oral appliance.

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Licia Coceani Paskay, MS, CCC-SLP, COM

This article originally appeared in Journal of the American Orthodontic Society