hey it's Dr Amanda with straight smile Solutions straightsmilesolutions.com and I know you're
probably looking at the title of this YouTube video and you're like what the heck is she talking
about what does this have to do with Orthodontics well it kind of does so let me tell you this very
strange strange personal story part of my YouTube channel is I can get very personal especially when
I know it's going to benefit others so I know this is going to benefit others so I'm going
to get personal knowing that there is a digital thumbprint that is out there in the world for my
life you know talking about some personal stuff about me but I know it might help hundreds if
not thousands if not millions of people if I can get more people to research this so
I did my own little research project and if you go through all my maybe the last six months of my
posts you'll see that I went through the Journey of getting a tongue tie release which is not as
simple as it sounds for an adult why did I get the tongue tie release well it started off goodness
last fall I did a Blog piece on oral myofunctional therapy in terms of Orthodontics because I wanted
to know how to control habits kids adults how to get better orthodontic outcomes less relapse
that was it that was the whole reason I did it and I interviewed an omt and we did a little
little YouTube videos and I posted them you can go back and find them if you go into my channel
you go to my YouTube channel go to your YouTube channel put in straight smile Solutions takes you
to my YouTube channel from there you can go down to the playlist there's a playlist that says like
phase one Interventional omt or you can just even put in the like the little magnifying glass
section omt and all the videos will come up you'll see the whole journey you know from the last six
seven eight months anyways nine months okay so that was literally was my whole goal to learn
more about how it related to Orthodontics reduce relapse that's it better outcomes okay so in the
process I said okay I'm gonna be like a potential patient treat me like a potential patient let's
go through the whole screening process so I went through it and the omt was like ah okay you got a
few issues you actually could benefit from omt you know or a mild functional therapy and I was like
oh okay and she explained what the benefits would be and you know so I said okay well let's do it
let me let me actually I purchased the therapy just like any other patient you know regular
patient and then she also recommended I said I'm gonna do everything she recommends why not right
there was another you know a couple things I was hoping would benefit number one I've suffered from
speech issues my whole life wasn't speech therapy as a kid always struggling to make my sounds to
try not to lisp and you could hear it if you go back to my videos the last six years you're
gonna hear it sometimes especially when I'm tired it comes out and it definitely was a confidence
issue now that I'm lecturing more always going in my listing my listing when I'm when I'm you know
lecturing so anyways that I figured hey added benefit if that goes gets better great you know
the other issue was that I definitely had a lot of what I thought was TMJ pain from clenching
and grinding what my dentist dentist all this time you know everyone has told me that's what it was
and so I had been getting Master Botox twice a year a couple thousand dollars a year it was I
mean obviously I was trying to get my husband to get certified so he could I could probably
do it myself but he could give in you know he's taking the course later this summer it was going
to help save me some money but I'm like yeah this is really adding up I've been doing this for how
long like eight nine ten years and it definitely controlled the pain but sometimes it would turn
into migraines so I was on migraine medicine for many many many years because of the oral
malfunctional oral mild Facial Pain you know that would basically radiate down to my jaws
and everything like that anyways so I was like hey if that gets better I added bonus right whatever
there was Zero placebo effect I mean to the point where like zero like I was almost skeptical and
I didn't take it as seriously as I probably could have initially until I started seeing other things
change and I was like what what's going on right I changed nothing else I didn't change my diet
I didn't change my exercise a little bit you know but not any more than I did in past years
diet really didn't change that much you know um that's it you know nothing else changed so um went
through the process it took about six months to go through the process until I got my release which
was happened in June but it wasn't just the omt I also had to do cervical Cairo because I guess
my muscles will intertwine with the fascia and I know that sounds totally nuts but so I'm in total
price point including the surgery the cervical Cairo and the omt was ten thousand dollars I'll
be honest so it is a lot so I was like man this is a lot for a Blog piece but you know
hey I'm spending two or three thousand dollars a year anyways on on Master Botox you know and hey
getting better is always a good thing worse comes the worst this was just an expensive
blog post what it takes it did it takes a lot of time I'll be honest like between all
the doctor's appointments the at least once if not twice a week initial cervical Cairo
appointments which weren't incredibly convenient initially I mean I've been to work them in my
schedule they only take a few minutes you just have to drive their park and all that
um the exercising with omt which is daily I mean it definitely took time I mean it was
a commitment you had to really believe in it and even my husband who's a dentist and my kids were
like this is kind of weirdo you know everybody thought it was weirdo so but I you know I stuck
I when I put my head to something I'm just gonna finish it right I want to finish it this is my
little experiment so okay fast forward you can hear I definitely speech is way better sleep is
definitely better like definitely definitely definitely better pain is gone I haven't had
massive or Botox I went back to my day spa and it's been almost a year and she's like aren't you
due for your master Botox she probably was bummed I was like no I don't do that anymore so what
um so that was that okay definitely lost some weight didn't purposely try to I mean to the point
where some family members thought I was sick not sick felt great you know when to get blood work
today in my mind I was like hmm and I go once a year to get blood work and it's never that great
I'll be honest as you got older you know glucose levels um A1C levels all that like not great not
great um uh lots of rents you know on the thing and I didn't you know the doctors started putting
me on medications and I'm not going to go into all that I'm just figuring I'm getting older
right whatever it is what it is right haven't had normal blood work since before I had kids
you know and it had some gestational diabetes and stuff so there was all kind of stuff that went on
and I don't mind saying this you know because it is what it is because I want to help other people
so I go get my blood work today and to be really honest I ate like crap the last week because I was
in Nashville and I was and normally I wouldn't eat this bad I mean I was eating fried chicken I was
eating cobbler I was you know my favorite stuff I was eating cheesy grits all seating multiple
biscuits a day definitely I was drinking I mean like stuff I wouldn't normally do to excess I mean
I probably gained seven or eight pounds I get back the next day I go get my blood work super stupid
right but I was like shoot I didn't know I had to get it I had a doctor's appointment this next week
shoot I should have did it before my trip right wasn't thinking I'm gonna get scolded right so I
go I get the results today I'm like oh gosh it's gonna be so bad it's completely normal
it's below normal it's perfect no red perfect perfect it's like blood work of a 20 year old
completely healthy fit 20 year old insane insane so proof is in the numbers man and
there's zero placebo effect in this zero nothing because I didn't believe it so you know and
I just think this is going to be such exciting news for other people and I hope other people
really check this out you know um definite health benefits um so if you've had similar experiences
give me give me a heads up you know I think we should really as dentists start doing some
research on this um you know teaming up with the MD I'm definitely talking to my omt and my Cairo
to see if maybe we can you know publish something you know or get more people involved you know
and talk about the added health benefits of the systemic health benefits you know taking people
off medications making people feel better and be healthier and live longer all right thanks so much