Basic oral anatomy that will help you get through this course and understand what exactly it is that I'm referencing as we go along. The lingual frenum As mentioned previously, is what we are hoping to have reliefs. This picture where the arrows are pointing demonstrates a very, very restricted tongue tie. This person is tied to the tip. This person actually may not even realize that they have a tongue tip because the tip is essentially locked down to the floor of the mouth. Not all lingual friends will look like this and be this obvious.

There are posterior tongue ties that are less visual To the untrained provider and do require also be released in order for proper function. If you are unfamiliar with your tongue tip, this is your tongue tip. It seems very basic. But for someone who may not know the feeling of having a tongue tip, especially one that lifts up or is able to point out, it will be significant post release your palate hard and soft, near the back portion of the roof of your mouth is a slight division that is difficult for you to visualize. However, it's very easy for you to feel you can palpate it with your fingers or if you are less tied, you may be able to just sweep your tongue tip back along the roof of your mouth to feed Were those to separate the hard palate is where the bone is. And the soft palate is where the bone ends.

Your incisive papilla. This is a prominence located on your palate, the hard palate, a few millimeters behind the two front teeth. So your spot is going to be behind your two front teeth, several millimeters, just enough that you can feel that prominent area. This will hereby be referred to as the spot for those who are unfamiliar with their tongue tip, we do have the rubber band that we use when we are in actual myofunctional therapy practices when you sign up for a full myofunctional therapy session. program with a myofunctional therapist. rubber bands are normally included.

For this purpose of this course, you're going to be using Cheerios, dry oats or some other small food item. It will be placed on the tongue tip and you can practice lifting to spot. This helps with spot awareness and memory. teeth. Just in case you were wondering how the teeth are referenced as I go along. anatomically your molars are the big teeth that you chew with, they're in the back.

Right next to those are right ahead of those in front those if you're working forward in your mouth, towards your nose, or your pre molars, your pre molars are to teeth or in some cases, if you had braces and had teeth extracted. It may just be one on either side of your mouth but it should be two for a total of four on each arch top and bottom. Our incisors are what we use when we are biting food or tearing it. It's the first 40 right there along the front and our dog teeth would be our canines. This concludes our basic oral anatomy