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Back To Your Roots Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy - OMT

My passion is to understand the “root cause” of orofacial concerns. It’s like “Physio” Therapy for the face, mouth, lips and tongue!

I am an airway health advocate that provides therapy for orofacial muscle development, function and tone.

07/24/2025

🧐 Why Book a Myofunctional Therapy Assessment?

Because the way you breathe, chew, swallow, and rest your tongue impacts your entire body — and you might not even realize it.

A myofunctional assessment is the first step to uncovering the root cause behind issues like:

✔️ Mouth breathing
✔️ Snoring or restless sleep
✔️ Tongue thrust or lisp
✔️ Teeth clenching or grinding
✔️ Poor posture
✔️ Orthodontic relapse
✔️ Frequent headaches or neck tension
✔️ Speech and feeding difficulties

During your assessment, we evaluate oral and facial muscle function, airway health, and habit patterns — to determine if myofunctional therapy can help retrain the muscles and restore balance.

Whether you’re a parent concerned about your child’s development or an adult noticing on-going concerns, early intervention leads to better long-term outcomes.

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Ready to find the why behind the what?
Book your assessment and start your journey toward better breathing, sleep, and wellness.

When you 💛 what you do!
K, 🫶

07/22/2025

🎯 MYOFUNCTIONAL THERAPY MYTH BUSTER

Myth: "My child will grow out of mouth breathing or tongue thrusting."
Truth:
These habits aren’t just “phases” — they are signs of dysfunction in oral and facial muscle patterns that often build and worsen over time if left untreated.

✔️ Chronic mouth breathing can impact facial development, sleep quality, posture, learning abilities and even emotional regulation.
✔️ Tongue thrusts can affect speech, swallowing, orthodontic outcomes, and jaw stability.

Myofunctional therapy helps correct these patterns early by training the muscles to function the way they’re designed to — supporting better breathing, posture, sleep, and development.

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Let’s treat the cause, not just the symptoms.
💬 Got questions about how myofunctional therapy works? I’d love to help.

When you 💛 what you do!
K, 🫶

07/17/2025

It’s Been a While—Let Me Reintroduce Myself

Hi, I’m Kelly Hall, a Registered Dental Hygienist with a specialization in Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy.

I’m passionate about helping children and adults achieve optimal airway health through a whole-body, natural wellness approach. My work focuses on the development, function, and balance of the oral and facial muscles—because how we breathe, speak, chew, and swallow truly impacts how we feel and function.

Through customized therapy, I teach awareness and coordination of the muscles that support:

Tongue placement

Nasal breathing

Chewing and swallowing

Oral rest posture

My mission is to identify the root cause behind orofacial and breathing-related concerns—not just manage the symptoms.

As an Airway Health Advocate, I work with clients of all ages, helping to restore balance and function through personalized care that supports long-term health and development.

📖 Want to learn more?
Check out my article, “Healthy Kids Need Healthy Airways,” featured in the September 2020 issue of Oh Canada! - Oral Health Canada magazine.

When you 💛 what you do!
K, 🫶

07/15/2025

Airway Health: The Hidden Pathway to Wellness

It all begins with airway, breathing, and sleep. When these foundational systems aren’t functioning well, it can affect everything—from your mood and focus to your energy and long-term health.

If you don’t breathe well, your body works harder just to function. A poorly developed or restricted airway can lead to mouth breathing, snoring, or sleep apnea, all of which interfere with the deep, restorative sleep your body needs to heal, grow, and thrive.

Disrupted sleep doesn’t just leave you tired. It can impact focus, memory, posture, and proper growth and development.
Even signs like teeth crowding, clenching, grinding, and muscle tightness can all be linked to your body’s effort to keep the airway open.

So—how important is an open airway?
When the airway is clear and functioning well:

💛 You breathe better,

💛 You sleep better,

💛 And you feel better.

We often see improvements in focus, energy, anxiety, and even skin tone as the body finally gets the rest it needs. Breathing becomes easier—the way it was always meant to be.
(Nose for breathing, mouth for eating—just as nature designed.)

As an Airway-Focused Registered Dental Hygienist and Orofacial Myologist, I’m here to support you in uncovering the root causes behind your symptoms and guiding you back to optimal function.

When you 💛 what you do!
K, 🫶

07/10/2025

We just want to take a moment to say thank you 💛

Thank you to our incredible clients for trusting us with your care,
To our referring professionals for your continued collaboration,
And to this growing community for showing up with curiosity, courage, and commitment.

We’re so grateful to do this work—and we’re honoured to do it with you.

When you 💛 what you do!
K, 🫶

07/08/2025

What is Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy (OMT)?
Think of it as physical therapy for the face and mouth.

OMT helps correct habits like mouth breathing, tongue thrust, snoring, poor chewing or swallowing patterns, and more—by retraining the muscles that control how we breathe, speak, eat, and rest.

🌬️ Better breathing
😴 Deeper sleep
🍽️ Improved chewing & swallowing
😌 Relief from jaw pain, headaches & more

Whether you're a child developing healthy habits or an adult dealing with sleep apnea or TMD, OMT gets to the root cause—not just the symptoms.

📩 Curious if it could help you? Let’s talk.

When you 💛 what you do!
K, 🫶

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07/03/2025

The tongue plays a crucial role in stabilizing the jaw. The ideal oral rest tongue posture not only helps to stabilize the jaw and relax the intense jaw muscles but also supports a healthy open airway.

Low tongue posture and/or a tongue tie restriction may be a contributing factor to clenching and grinding. OMT exercises have shown to significantly decrease clenching and grinding if the underlying cause is tongue and muscle related.

When you love what you do!
K,

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07/01/2025

Happy Canada Day!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦

06/28/2025

It’s that time of year again! Working on my posture and body alignment.

04/08/2025

Symptoms of Temporomanibular Disorders(TMD)

• Jaw and facial pain
• Neck Pain and tension
• Earaches
• Tinnitus
• Headaches
• Clicking of the jaw
• Clenching and grinding
• Difficulty opening the mouth or yawning
• Locking open of the jaw
• Dizziness

When you love what you do!
K,

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03/29/2025

🇨🇦 tribe attending the conference.

03/28/2025

Conference day! Ready to geek out and learn new things!

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Waterloo, ON

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 1pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm

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http://www.backtoyourrootsomt.ca/

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Kelly Hall, RDH - Orofacial Myofunctional Therapist

Hi, I’m Kelly

I am a dedicated, caring professional that embraces the natural health approach and whole body wellness.

I provide gentle thorough care by meeting individual needs and restoring patients health and wellness. I graduated with Honours in 2006 at the Canadian Academy of Dental Hygiene in Mississauga.

My journey to becoming a Myofunctional Therapist began when I became passionate about the strong connection between oral health and the connection to the body. As I started my myofunctional therapy training and began helping my patients I starting learning more about my own orofacial myofunctional symptoms. This is when I became increasingly interested in natural health and wellness. I wanted to understand the root cause of not only oral myofunctional problems, but poor health in general.

This is where the name of my company was inspired from: Back to Your Roots. This interest became a passion that drove me to look further into how the airway, craniofacial development, breathing, and tongue are all linked to our overall health, sleep, and well being.

I also started asking the bigger questions. Why had I never heard of this field? Why did none of my own doctors and dentists notice my symptoms when I was a child? How come so few of my professional colleagues were even aware of this connection?

Once I began my journey into my myofunctional therapy practice, it didn’t take me long to realize that most dentists, pediatricions, orthodontists, and ENTs didn't fully understand oral myofunctional therapy because they were simply never trained in this topic as part of their medical or dental education. This was discouraging to me, as working with my patients I could see the impact of oral myofunctional disorders. On the bright side, I knew that I could make a difference, as myofunctional therapy can literally be LIFE CHANGING!

I started to see so many patients with serious health problems including sleep apnea, severe facial pain and jaw tension, and undiagnosed tongue-ties. To help these complex cases, I am able to work along side a network of specialists to ensure the best needs of the patients are met. I'm passionate about connecting with, and creating a powerful network of dentists, doctors, and healthcare providers who are interested in changing the status quo and making a difference in the lives of patients with oral health and breathing problems.

In addition to the unique treatment protocols and exercises that I’ve developed, I will be offering a program soon that will incorporate The Buteyko Breathing Method for stress and anxiety management.