Elevate Tongue Tie & Airway Center, PLLC

Elevate Tongue Tie & Airway Center, PLLC We believe small changes can make a big difference. Live Life Elevated. ✨

The office of Dr. Janelle Lee is dedicated solely to airway health: helping children and adults breathe better, sleep better, and live life elevated. 💚✨ Dr Lee is dedicated to finding the root causes of feeding, breathing, and sleep challenges. Founded and led by Dr. Janelle Lee, a board-certified pediatric dentist with 17 years of clinical dental experience, Elevate Tongue Tie & Airway Center he

lps children and adults breathe better, sleep better, and function better. 💛 We specialize in airway consultations, early palatal expansion, tongue function assessments, functional frenuloplasty, gentle tongue/lip/cheek tie releases, and educating sleep hygiene and nervous system regulation.

🎓Elevate Graduates🎓These cuties & their parents put in the work 😍👏 From physical therapy, bodywork, feeding support, and...
05/08/2026

🎓Elevate Graduates🎓

These cuties & their parents put in the work 😍👏 From physical therapy, bodywork, feeding support, and oral motor functional prep, this is truly a team effort! 🤍

A huge thank you to our collaborative team for helping prep these babies and families for success. 🩷🙌

One mama, coming from a family in dentistry, already understood how oral restrictions can impact airway development and oral health long term and chose to be proactive early. 💫

We don’t just treat the tie.
We help prepare the body, support function, and guide families through the journey together. 🤍

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Picky eater… or struggling to chew? 🤔Not all picky eating is about preference.Sometimes, it’s a function issue.If a chil...
05/05/2026

Picky eater… or struggling to chew? 🤔

Not all picky eating is about preference.
Sometimes, it’s a function issue.

If a child:
• Avoids chewy or textured foods
• Prefers soft foods
• Eats slowly
• Gags or pockets food

It may not be behavior. Chewing might feel hard.

Here’s what many parents don’t realize:

Also, if there’s an airway/breathing issue, low tongue and lip muscle tone, and restrictive tongue/lip ties, eating can look messy:
• Food falling out
• Open mouth chewing
• Needing to breathe while eating
• Poor lip or tongue control

We also understand that eating is multifactorial. A person’s medical history can play a big role in how they eat and develop these patterns.

Why chewing matters⬇️
Chewing helps:
• Strengthen & grow your jaw
• Develop a wider palate
• Support airway growth 🫁

Less chewing = less growth

What can help:

The Myo Munchee is a targeted exercise tool that supports:
•Chewing strength
•Coordination
•Tongue function
•Lip seal to promote nasal breathing

▫️Babies ➡️ adults (TMJ issues, or adults who may be on a soft food diet, of dysphasias from Alzheimers, dementia, stroke, etc)
▫️Simple + effective

We don’t do this alone 🤍
We collaborate with feeding therapists & myofunctional therapists to support your child’s eating.

We love this simple yet effective adjunctive tool!

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Snoring isn’t just annoying. You’re choking in your sleep, and it’s your airway asking for help.🆘For many people, the so...
04/30/2026

Snoring isn’t just annoying. You’re choking in your sleep, and it’s your airway asking for help.🆘

For many people, the sound comes from a vibrating, floppy, soft palate during sleep. Laxity in this area can occur with age, hormonal changes & hypermobility disorders.

We use a non-ablative (non-cutting) CO₂ laser to gently stimulate collagen and help that tissue become firmer and less prone to collapse without cutting or removing tissue…increasing your air space”. 😃

But here’s what most people don’t hear:
Snoring isn’t just a soft palate issue.

If the tongue is low, the airway is narrow, or nasal breathing is compromised, the palate will keep compensating.

This treatment is an adjunct to other airway interventions like myofunctional therapy, CPAP, mandibular advancement appliances, MARPE, etc.

**These photos are of a patient who has completed myofunctional therapy and MARPE orthodontics and wanted to address soft palate laxity.**

Do you or someone you know snore?💤
Interested to see if you’re a candidate?
👇
480-712-2390
Info@elevatedtongue.com

Better breathing. Deeper sleep. Real change.🤍

So special having Sara, a speech & myofunctional therapist, all the way from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 spend time with us today...
04/29/2026

So special having Sara, a speech & myofunctional therapist, all the way from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 spend time with us today! 😊

Nothing better than connecting with like-minded providers and truly nerding out on all things myofunctional therapy, airway, and function. 🤍

Grateful for the collaboration, the shared passion, and the reminder that this work is happening all over the world 🙏🤍

04/23/2026

👀Eyes are the window to your soul…and your airway!

👁️When we see excessive sclera (the white of the eye) above or below the iris, it can be more than just an eye feature. It may be a clue! 🕵🏻

👀A clue that the maxilla isn’t being fully supported by the tongue.
If the tongue isn’t up, it’s likely down.⬇️

👁️And when the tongue rests low, we start thinking bigger:
▫️How is this impacting nasal breathing?
▫️Is airflow limited, especially during sleep?
▫️Are there signs of sleep-disordered breathing?

👀Scleral show can also be associated with connective tissue patterns, including hypermobility spectrum disorders and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Same face. Different story underneath!

👀The face gives us wonderful clues into many systemic things!

We don’t just look at teeth.
We look at the WHY.

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Not all tongue tie releases are the same.As a Breathe Institute Ambassador for the last 5 years, we use the functional f...
04/22/2026

Not all tongue tie releases are the same.

As a Breathe Institute Ambassador for the last 5 years, we use the functional frenuloplasty technique developed and published by .

This approach is more than just a release.

It combines:
• Precise surgical technique: not too much and not too little.
• Myofunctional therapy before, during & after
• Sutures for optimal healing on anyone who will tolerate it. Our youngest yet wad 3 years old.

Tongue mobility matters. It affects how you breathe, swallow, speak, and rest your tongue.

When the tongue is restricted, the body adapts. Over time, this leads to compensation patterns, muscle imbalances, and altered function.

And this is where many people misunderstand the process:

Myofunctional therapy is not just a few quick tongue exercises to “get you to the release.”

It’s the process of unwinding years of compensation and retraining new, functional patterns.

Breathing. Swallowing. Muscle coordination.

That takes time. Consistency. Repetition.

And it takes months of diligence, especially for adults who have had decades of these patterns.

Mobility alone isn’t enough.

Mobility without function = limited results.

This is why therapy before and after a release is essential, so your body not only gains movement, but actually learns how to use it.

We don’t just release the tie, We treat the WHY.

This was a team effort with . 🤍

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04/18/2026

This week at Elevate 🤍

From the tiniest infants to adults finally finding answers:

• Babies still struggling with breast & bottle feeding, even after IBCLC support & bodywork💕
• Referrals from OT, where airway and nervous system regulation often overlap🙏
• An 11-year-old who just wants to swallow his daily medicine without gagging or nausea💕
• Adults who discovered their tongue tie & airway concerns through social media, and are ready to improve their sleep, speech, and tension.🙏

Different ages. Different stories.
Same mission: getting to the root so they can breathe, function, and feel better.

We don’t just treat the tie, we treat the WHY. 🤍

04/15/2026

Specifically for children that have all of their baby teeth through adults, before we ever get to a tongue tie release, we’re looking at so much more.

It’s not just “is there a tie?”
It’s “can the tongue actually function?”

We assess:

1️⃣ Tongue tone: Is the tongue strong enough to do its job? A weak tongue won’t suddenly work better just because it can move more.

2️⃣ Tongue space (the maxilla size): Is there enough room in your “tongue’s home” (the top jaw) for the tongue to rest where it’s supposed to? If the space is too small, the tongue has nowhere to go, even after a release. We also assess tonsil size, soft palate and uvula.

3️⃣ Hypermobility: Is there underlying laxity? In these cases, airway muscles are often more lax and unstable, so the body creates compensatory tension to try and maintain airway support. Releasing without addressing this can actually make function feel harder, not easier.

A release without the right foundation can lead to frustration, relapse, or limited results.

This is why we don’t just treat the tie; we treat the WHY. ☺️

The goal isn’t just more movement.
It’s strength, stability, and space, so the tongue can actually work the way it’s designed to.

If you’ve been told you as an adult or your child (if your child has all of their baby teeth) “just needs a release”, it’s worth looking at the full picture first.

Better function ➡️ better breathing ➡️ better sleep ➡️ better quality of life. 🤍

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