Cockeysville Dental

12/20/2025

We had the best time at our team holiday dinner Restaurant! Wishing you and your loved ones a joyous holiday season 🎄🎊❤️

12/03/2022

Check out our Christmas offer this year!
Call and book for a brighter smile for the holiday season!

09/08/2022

We are so happy to have Florence back!!!

08/23/2022

Celebrating Delanie’s birthday today!!!!

07/30/2022

What an awesome weekend of learning! Dr. Steve Lamberg and Dr. Michael Gelb sharing their knowledge in dental sleep and airway health! Loved every minute of it. 💙

02/04/2022

Wacky rainy FRI-YAY!! How is your Friday going?

10/29/2021

Oral contributions can be a factor in your compromised airway which can lead to a host of systemic symptoms downstream. Whole body wellness includes your mouth. How is your mouth contributing to your overall health and well being?

The root of many symptoms…….

08/06/2021

Learning with Dr. Felix Liao! OMT of Hunt Valley, LLC

07/16/2021

This is what Myofunctional therapy can do. Photos of Dr. Shin's daughter pre treatment vs. MID TREATMENT with OMT of Hunt Valley.
Notice on the top pre treatment photo, the upper teeth are flared. This was due to a tongue trust swallow. Myofunctional therapy is re-training muscle patterns and creating a proper swallow to allow adequate growth and development of the head face and neck. This type of therapy “aids” patient by balancing muscles during function such as chewing, swallowing, and breathing!

We aren’t complete with treatment quite yet, but we all are waiting with anticipation for her final result!

05/08/2021

Proper functioning of the tongue is important on so many different levels. Dr. Steven Lin author of the dental diet explains it so well In his post. What do you know about myofunctional therapy? If you want more information, give our office a call!

Low tongue posture can lead to health issues throughout the body. The tongue is an organ that guides the digestive process, and is critical for both neural signals in the brain.⠀
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When you swallow incorrectly, it deforms the dental arch. In kids we can see ‘open bites’ or high arched palates that indicate the tongue isn’t making proper connection to the roof of the mouth.⠀
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Mouth breathing (even at night), an incorrect tongue resting posture, or an improper swallowing pattern can all contribute to the vagus nerve not being correctly stimulated.⠀
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The vagus nerve is one of the primary parasympathetic cranial nerves and drives the digestive system.⠀
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Correct swallowing activates rest and digest messages that must begin in the mouth.⠀
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During these times, the glands relax and release saliva for digestion, and the body sends hormonal signals reading the body to absorb.⠀
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These are the activities that happen when the body is resting and unstressed, particularly after we eat and when we sleep. The sympathetic nervous system on the other hand stimulates the activities that are connected to the fight-or-flight response.⠀
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When we breathe through the nose, have the tongue in the roof of the mouth, and swallow correctly, the vagus nerve is being stimulated. But when we don’t, it can lead to low vagus nerve stimulation. This can contribute to the factors that are keeping us stuck in fight-or-flight, or actually put us directly in that state.⠀
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If you don’t swallow properly you end up living in a permanent state of stress. This in turn can affect our digestion because after all, digestion isn’t a priority when you’re running for your life. Again, running or fighting is what this whole stress response system is designed for.⠀
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How to start strengthening and reconnecting the tongue to the roof of the mouth:⠀
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‘Table Top exercises’ are where you hold the entire surface of the tongue to the roof of the mouth. Suction the tongue up and right to the back of the throat and hold the posture here. Hold for 20 seconds and rest and repeat 5 times.⠀
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It feels strange, but this is how the tongue should guide the swallow response.⠀
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Do you struggle with breathing?

09/05/2020

Enjoy your Labor Day Weekend from all of us at Cockeysville Dental!

07/27/2020

TEMP RDH needed for tomorrow in Cockeysville! 8-3:30pm. PM me if you're available and interested!