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6. Ep. 1 of Airway Answers: Expanding Your Breath of Knowledge - MSE - Maxillary Surgical Expansion

Season #1

SHOW: Airway Answers: Expanding Your Breath of Knowledge

HOST: Nicole Goldfarb, M.A. CCC, SLP- COM®

EPISODE NAME: MSE - Maxillary Surgical Expansion

GUEST SPEAKERS: Dr. Richard Ting and Dr. Tracey Nguyen

SHOW NOTES: This episode reviews the technique of Maxillary Skeletal Expansion (MSE) in order to grow the maxillary bone and increase nasal floor volume. Nicole Goldfarb, M.A., CCC-SLP, COM interviews Dr. Richard Ting who is an airway focused orthodontist in southern California, and Dr. Tracey Nguyen who is an airway focused dentist in Northern Virginia, as both of these practitioners have vast experience with this research-based technique to "grow the airway".

 

Dr. Richard Ting https://www.tingortho.com/

  • Dr. Richard Ting is an Airway & Functional Orthodontist in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA who treats airway issues and mouth breathing in children, teen & adults. Dr. Ting’s methods are state of the art and don’t leave patients with a life-time dependence of appliances and altered bite. 
  • Dr. Ting is one of the few elite Orthodontists in the nation who have mastered the use of the MSE (Maxillary Skeletal Expander); perhaps the most experienced in the world. In addition, he teaches fellow Orthodontists and dentists the benefits and placement of the MSE world-wide through seminars and published videos.
  • He is one of the few dental professionals that have a true understanding of Clenching Related TMJ Issues. Dr. Ting has successfully treated hundreds of patients who have had failed results by other dental professionals using common appliances and methods. He is also a Diamond Plus Invisalign provider (top 1% in the US).
  • He is the Chosen Orthodontist for many local dental professionals and their families. Many Dentists and Orthodontists who live out of state travel to California to be treated solely by Dr. Ting due to his well-known expertise in the above mentioned specialty areas. 

 

Dr. Tracey Nguyen https://lansdownedentist.com/

  • Dr. Tracey Nguyen is an airway focused dentist that maintains a private practice 30 minutes outside of Washington, DC in Northern Virginia. 
  • In 2015, she was accredited by the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry.  
  • In 2016, she was honored with Top 25 Women in Dentistry by Dental Products Magazine.
  • She is one of the key opinion leaders in the Wellness Dentistry Network.  
  • She is a visiting faculty mentor at Spear Education.
  • In 2016, she developed the Sleep and Airway Group, 
  • In 2020, she co-founded ASAP, Airway, Sleep and Pediatric Pathway.  ASAP is an online mini-residency for pediatric dental sleep medicine.
  • In 2021, she was honored as the Scientific Advisor for the prestigious advanced dental education center, the Kois Center. 
  • Her mission is to develop a better understanding for the complexities of the disease and bring like-minded professions together to co-diagnose and treat.

 

ABOUT OUR HOST: Nicole Goldfarb, M.A., CCC-SLP, COM https://sandiegocenterforspeechtherapy.com/

  • Nicole Goldfarb is a Speech-Language Pathologist and Certified Orofacial Myologist in San Diego, CA., and she is the owner of San Diego Center For Speech Therapy & Myofunctional Therapy that she founded in 2003.  
  • She has the distinction of being one of just a few Speech-Language Pathologists who holds a joint Certification of Orofacial Myology (COM) in all of San Diego County.  
  • Nicole has been practicing Speech-Language Pathology since 2003 and Myofunctional Therapy since 2008.
  • Nicole has achieved numerous training in both Speech-Language Pathology and orofacial myofunctional disorders, and she has a special passion and interest in sleep-disordered breathing and diagnosing restricted frenums as they relate to myofunctional disorders.   
  • Nicole received intensive and advanced training for over a year with the nationally renowned Certified Orofacial Myologist, Katha Phair.  Katha trained Nicole in her unique, specialized, and unmatched techniques that she had developed and refined over the past 40 years.  In 2014, Katha Phair selected Nicole to take over her myofunctional therapy practice.
  • Nicole has presented internationally to dentists, orthodontists, dental hygienists, oral maxillofacial surgeons, periodontists, and other specialists on Myofunctional Therapy as it relates to Sleep-Disordered Breathing.  
  • She is on the American Dental Association's children's airway screener task force (CAST), developing the universal screening tool that all dentists in the USA will use to screen children for sleep-disordered breathing.   She is also writing a large chapter about Orofacial Myofunctional therapy in a medical textbook that will be published in 2023.