Innovative Oral Solutions

09/10/2026

Every clinical practice has a version of this patient: the one with jaw pain managed by every modality, airway dysfunction that CPAP only partially addresses, orthodontic relapse that has recurred despite multiple interventions, or a pediatric presentation that straddles attention, sensory, feeding, and airway concerns without fitting cleanly into a single specialty's framework.

These are the patients who fall through the gaps of siloed clinical training — because the connections between their presentations require a clinical model that sees across systems rather than within them.

The Integrative Myo-Rhino & NRT Practitioner Training Series at The Vivos Institute, led by Laura Walls, M.S., CCC-SLP, is designed around exactly this clinical reality. The training builds a whole-system framework for assessing and treating patients whose presentations intersect oral motor function, airway health, cranial mechanics, primitive reflex patterns, and neurological function.

For practitioners who have encountered these patients and felt the ceiling of their current training, this series represents the clinical education that closes the gap.

The series begins October 2, 2026 with the Basic Integrative MyoRhino Practitioner course — a live online session delivering 9 CE units and covering the foundational MyoRhino assessment framework. It continues through five progressive modules, culminating in advanced case management and NRT certification by February 2027.

Laura Walls brings 30+ years of clinical experience, a pioneering whole-body approach to myofunctional disorders, and direct clinical expertise in the MyoRhino methodology to every training she delivers.

The complete bundle is $3,380 — $500 savings off individual registration. CE units accumulate across the series.

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Build advanced clinical skills through an integrated training series covering Myo-Rhino assessment, Nasal Release Technique, primitive reflex integration, airway care, and cranial therapies. Develop practical tools to assess and treat complex patients across the lifespan.

09/10/2026

Most TMJ treatment focuses on the joint:
• anti-inflammatory management,
• occlusal splints,
• physical therapy for the surrounding musculature.

What is less frequently addressed is the functional oral motor layer that's often loading the joint in the first place. Low tongue posture creates chronic suprahyoid tension. Compensatory jaw positioning to maintain airway patency during sleep loads the TMJ through the night. Atypical swallowing patterns recruit jaw musculature unnecessarily, thousands of times per day.

The OPA addresses these functional contributors — supporting neutral jaw alignment by correcting the tongue posture and swallowing patterns upstream.

It's not a replacement for TMJ management. It's the functional layer that management alone can't reach.

Learn more about OPA therapy at iosmmw.com — or ask your provider if it's the right fit.

09/09/2026

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙮𝙤𝙞𝙙 𝙗𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙧𝙖𝙝𝙮𝙤𝙞𝙙 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙨. The hyoid connects to the mandible, larynx, and cervical structures.

Resting tongue posture, where the tongue sits in the oral cavity, directly influences hyoid position, which influences cervical muscle tension, head position, and the compensatory patterns that develop throughout the neck and upper back when the hyoid is chronically displaced inferiorly by low tongue posture.

This is why practitioners in physical therapy, chiropractic, and osteopathic medicine who address craniocervical alignment without evaluating oral motor function sometimes find their corrections don't hold. The tongue's resting position is upstream of the cervical alignment picture.

Dig deeper at Innovative Oral Solutions or book a consult to see how this applies to your care.

09/09/2026

The clinical case for adding myofunctional therapy to a dental, orthodontic, or SLP practice is clear. The business case is equally strong: a differentiated service that addresses presentations your conventional offering doesn't, a patient population whose outcomes — and therefore whose referrals — reflect the quality of your clinical work, and a platform (My MouthWorks) that scales the service without proportionally scaling your overhead. Practitioners who have integrated functional oral health care consistently report improved patient retention, more productive interdisciplinary referral relationships, and clinical outcomes that convert one-time patients into long-term advocates. The integration takes investment. The return is durable.

Add My MouthWorks to your toolkit at iosmmw.com/pages/myofunctional-therapy.

09/08/2026

𝙈𝙮𝙤𝙛𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙮 𝙞𝙨𝙣'𝙩 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙭𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙨. It's a structured rehabilitation protocol with distinct clinical phases.

• Assessment establishes the functional baseline.
• Consultation aligns the patient on goals and timeline expectations.
• Training progressively builds tongue strength, coordination, and positional awareness through exercises targeted to the patient's specific deficits.
• Integration targets generalization of the trained patterns into daily automatic function.
• Maintenance protects the functional gains long-term.

Each phase has measurable clinical benchmarks. The outcome is durable functional change, not compliance with a routine that improves when you're paying attention and degrades when you're not.

Ready to explore myofunctional therapy? Visit iosmmw.com/pages/myofunctional-therapy.

09/08/2026

During waking hours, conscious attention can compensate for poor oral motor patterns. Patients can direct themselves to keep their tongue up, close their lips, swallow correctly.

During sleep, those compensatory mechanisms aren't available, and the default pattern operates uninterrupted for seven to nine hours.

For patients with low tongue posture and mouth breathing, that's a seven-to-nine-hour training window for the wrong pattern.

The OPA's sleep-worn protocol converts that window into training for the correct pattern instead, providing the sensory reinforcement that shapes the nervous system's default during the hours when it's most formative.

Learn more about OPA therapy at Innovative Oral Solutions & Innovative Therapy 4 Kids

• 5804 Van Allen Way, Carlsbad, CA 92008
• (760) 438-3300
• [email protected]
• www.iosmmw.com

09/08/2026

There is a clinical gap in most practitioners' training — and it sits at the intersection of oral motor function, airway health, cranial mechanics, and neurological integration. The Integrative Myo-Rhino & NRT Practitioner Training Series at The Vivos Institute is specifically designed to fill it.

The series runs across five progressive modules:

Module 1 — Basic Integrative MyoRhino Practitioner with Laura Walls: October 2, 2026 | 9 CE Units. Foundational MyoRhino assessment covering airway function, facial structure, jaw mechanics, breathing pattern, and tongue posture.

Module 2 — NRT with Cynthia Stein: October 2026 | 4 CE Units. Clinical assessment and hands-on application of Nasal Release Technique for structural restrictions of the nasopharynx.

Module 3 — Primitive Reflex Integration, Pediatric with Laura Walls: November 6, 2026 | 9 CE Units. Neurological and developmental foundations of retained primitive reflexes in children.

Module 4 — Primitive Reflex Integration, Adult with Laura Walls: January 8, 2027 | 9 CE Units. Primitive reflex re-emergence in adults following injury, illness, or neurological stress.

Module 5 — Advanced MyoRhino & NRT Certification with Laura Walls: February 5-6, 2027 | 17 CE Units. Advanced assessment, complex case management, integrated treatment planning, NRT certification.

Total: over 48 CE units. Total investment: $3,380 for the complete bundle — $500 less than purchasing sessions individually.

For dentists, SLPs, physical therapists, chiropractors, orthodontists, and allied health providers ready to expand into integrative airway and functional oral health care — this is the most comprehensive practitioner training pathway currently available.

Registration is open. Link in bio.

Register:

Build advanced clinical skills through an integrated training series covering Myo-Rhino assessment, Nasal Release Technique, primitive reflex integration, airway care, and cranial therapies. Develop practical tools to assess and treat complex patients across the lifespan.

09/08/2026

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙞𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙮 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡 𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡-𝙙𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙.

The Equiscope's picoampere-range current interacts with cytochrome c oxidase, the terminal enzyme in the mitochondrial electron transport chain, stimulating ATP production, modulating reactive oxygen species, and influencing gene expression that promotes repair and reduces inflammation.

This is the same basic mechanism behind photobiomodulation, applied through electrical rather than photonic energy. The biology is real, reproducible, and supported by a growing peer-reviewed evidence base.

We apply it clinically where the evidence is clearest.

Learn more at Innovative Oral Solutions or visit: https://iosmmw.com/pages/intelbio

09/08/2026

"The patients Innovative Oral Solutions is built to serve are the ones who've been to multiple providers, received multiple diagnoses, and experienced multiple partial treatments without achieving the durable functional improvement they were looking for. The patient whose TMJ symptoms haven't resolved despite multiple modalities of management. The child whose mouth breathing hasn't been connected to their sleep quality or attention difficulties. The orthodontic patient whose third round of treatment is beginning without myofunctional evaluation. The adult whose snoring has been attributed to anatomy rather than function. These patients exist in every dental, medical, and therapy practice. They need functional oral health care. That's what we do.

Connect at Innovative Oral Solutions — and follow along as we move the field forward.

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09/07/2026

𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘 𝙛𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙜𝙪𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙙𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢.

One cause that rarely makes the lifestyle health conversation is the sleep quality impact of habitual mouth breathing and airway dysfunction.

If the tongue is resting low during sleep, the airway narrows, breathing disrupts, sleep architecture fragments, and the restorative sleep stages the body needs for cellular repair and energy restoration become shorter. You can wake up in a clean environment with a great mattress and a melatonin supplement and still be exhausted because your breathing pattern is working against you.

The MyoRhino Assessment identifies whether this is a contributor. Myofunctional therapy and OPA are how it gets addressed.

Start with a MyoRhino Assessment at iosmmw.com/pages/myorhino clarity first.