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Elevate Tongue Tie & Airway Center, PLLC

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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 helps 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.

03/07/2026

Normal vs. Compensated Tongue Function 👅

At first glance, this looks like amazing tongue lift, but this 8 year old was actually recruiting his floor of mouth and neck muscles to speak, swallow, and breathe. This compensation can affect your airway & breathing during sleep. Using the floor of mouth hold per protocol, we were able to see how he was compensating.

After myofunctional therapy and improving tongue space with palatal expansion, we performed a functional frenuloplasty to increase tongue range of motion and decrease fascial tension.

Just 2 weeks later, improvements noticed by the patient & mom:
• Speech: Easier communication, clearer pronunciation of “S” and “Th” sounds
• Sleep: Deeper, more restful sleep; less teeth grinding
• Feeding: Easier eating and swallowing

Teamwork makes the dream work 🙌
Special thanks to and Dr. Chris Munkel of Distinctive Dentistry in N. Phoenix for expansion support!

At Elevate, Dr. Lee strongly believes in a team approach, combining therapies before and after a release to achieve the best outcomes for her patients.🤍

02/20/2026

Baby Elevate Graduates 🎓🎉

We love celebrating the wins families notice most:

✨ Deeper latch
✨ Slides off the ni**le less
✨ Less colic symptoms
✨ Fewer clicking/smacking noises
✨ Less gassy & less fussy
✨ Lip flanges out better
✨ Less gumming on mom’s ni**le
✨ Pacifier stays in
✨ Less milk leaking from the mouth
✨ More babbling
✨ Happier, more comfortable baby

But here’s the truth…

A tongue and/or lip tie release is NOT the magic bullet.

These beautiful changes happen when the right team comes together with one shared goal:
👉 helping babies truly thrive.

At Elevate, we’re grateful to collaborate with amazing providers who support each family’s journey.

🤍 IBCLCs
🤍 Pediatric bodyworkers
🤍 Feeding therapists
🤍 Myofunctional therapists
🤍 Airway-focused ENTs
🤍 Supportive pediatricians

These wins were a team effort with our friends:
chiropractic

Because when we work together… babies win.

✨ Ready to support your baby’s feeding journey? Link in bio.

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02/10/2026

🦋 The butterfly effect.

Seven years ago, I went to the Breathe & Thrive Symposium, and it quietly changed the trajectory of my pediatric dental career. That experience opened my eyes to look beyond teeth, gums, and dental crowding, and into airway, breathing and sleep. It slowly reshaped how I practiced pediatric dentistry.

I began to see the mouth as the gateway to better breathing, deeper sleep, a healthier microbiome, and ultimately… doing life better.

What started as curiosity grew into a more holistic, airway-focused approach, focused on root cause and long-term wellness.

This conference reinforces the years of going down this rabbit hole: airway health is more than a tongue or lip tie procedure. It’s about function, growth, habits, and supporting the whole child over time.

🤍 I’m committed to learning better screening tools and clinical techniques, staying current on the latest research and best practices for tethered oral tissues and airway health, and collaborating and catching up with a tribe of like minded providers I’ve trained alongside in other airway and expansion courses.

🤍 If this resonates, whether as a parent or provider, early awareness and gentle screening can make a meaningful difference.

02/04/2026

When your former high school sterile tech is in her last semester of college and already accepted to dental school, proud doesn’t begin to cover it! 😮‍💨🤯🦷🎓 Watching you grow, grind, and chase this dream has been such a joy. 🥹 The future of dentistry is in GREAT hands. Congrats Abby, you earned every bit of this! 🎉🥳✨

02/03/2026

Tongue Up Tuesday ⬆️

This 9 year old completed a functional frenuloplasty as part of a comprehensive, airway focused care plan!

👨‍👩‍👧 Parent concerns included open-mouth breathing and poor-quality sleep.

Her treatment plan included:
• Increasing her tongue space and nasal volume with palatal expansion
• Myofunctional therapy completed both before and after treatment
• Functional frenuloplasty to support proper tongue posture and breathing

🤍 This was a team effort with &

💤 Post-release update from mom: deeper sleep, fewer wake ups, “so many dreams now”, and waking up more refreshed. “Mornings are easier, more productive, and less exhausting, a huge win.” 🙌

✨ Every child is different. This is one example of an individualized airway plan. If your child mouth breathes or seems tired despite a full night’s sleep, awareness is the first step and an individualized evaluation can help guide next steps.

02/02/2026

🎓Elevate Graduate🎓 One of the highest compliments as a dentist is when another dental colleague chooses you as their provider. ☺️ Immensely grateful for your trust. 🙏 💕 Even more grateful for the outcomes: improved sleep, reduced neck pain, and easier swallowing! ✨ This is why we do what we do.

Myofunctional therapy was completed before and after treatment.🙌 This was a team effort with . 🤍

01/29/2026

💤 Snoring or mouth breathing kids? Start simple.

A recent study in JAMA Pediatrics found that plain saline nasal spray worked just as well as steroid nasal sprays for kids with mild sleep-disordered breathing: like snoring, mouth breathing, or restless sleep.

✨ About 1 in 3 kids improved with saline alone
✨ Adding a steroid spray didn’t improve results
✨ Researchers recommend trying daily intranasal saline for up to 3 months because it’s cheap, safe, and effective.

📚 And this isn’t new news…
Saline nasal spray has been supported by the Cochrane Review since 2018.

👉 What is the Cochrane Review?
Cochrane Review is a trusted, independent group that reviews hundreds of high-quality studies to give evidence-based medical/healthcare recommendations. It’s considered the gold standard for medical/healthcare research.

💡 Takeaway for parents:
Sometimes the simplest, safest option is a great first step, especially for mild symptoms. Always talk with your child’s provider about what’s best for them.

🌬️ Saline sprays are just one tool. Many children still need additional therapies to address the root cause: like jaw size, tongue function, body tension/hypotonia and orofacial muscle tone.

👃Any saline spray will do! I personally love and use the brand.

Healthy breathing = better sleep = happier kids 💖

Nixon GM, Anderson D, Baker A, Davidson A, Griffiths A, Grobler AC, Pinczower G, Rimmer J, Rose E, Selman CJ, Simpson CM, Vandeleur M, Perrett KP. Intranasal Treatments for Children With Sleep-Disordered Breathing: The MIST+ Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2026 Jan 20:e255717. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.5717. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41557344; PMCID: PMC12820777.

01/27/2026

Tongue Up Tuesday 👅⬆️
Before ➡️ After functional frenuloplasty tongue-tie release for this amazing 3 year-old!

When the tongue rests up, the airway wins. 🙌 Better oral function = better breathing + better sleep.

Parents’ pre-release concerns:
-chronic open-mouth breathing
-driven by a motor
-restless sleep & waking up tired and not refreshed.

Patient underwent myofunctional therapy before and after to retrain muscles of the tongue, lips, cheeks for proper posture and use.

✨Restful sleep noted by parents one week post release.

This outcome was a team effort with 🤍

*This release was successfully completed with oral conscious sedation after a previous unsuccessful attempt with nitrous oxide.*

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Wednesday	8am - 4pm
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Friday	8am - 4am

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