Oral Health and Dental Management

Looking at the interactions between physiological coherence, dental caries mouth breathing, heart rate and emotional health

4^th Asia Pacific Congress & Expo on Dental and Oral Health

July 27-29, 2015 Brisbane, Australia

Lynette G Wallace

ScientificTracks Abstracts-Workshop: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

The author will talk about physiological coherence and how it can be measured with biofeedback computer program as an adjunct to treatment. The author will also talk on the effect of mouth breathing on the autonomic nervous system which takes its cue from breathing frequency and controls 90% of the body?s involuntary functions including immune system response, hormonal response, metabolism and digestion. How biofeedback monitoring is used in mouth breathing program in conjunction with myofunctional trainers to display and monitor progress using Heart Rate Variability HRV, not only with conversion to nasal breathing but also changes in emotional state, mental focus, motivation and energy will be described. This presentation will talk about the relationship of physiological coherence to dental caries and how it activates and deactivates salivary proteins, relationship of coherence to interproximal decay, and how coherence reflects an ordered synchronization between the sympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system in the flow of information throughout the body.

Biography :

Lynette Wallace graduated from University of Sydney in 1994 with Honours. She has been in private practice in Bowral since 1994. She takes a multi-diciplinary approach to patient care, studying both in the USA and Australia in orthodontics and neuromuscular dentistry and kinesiology. She is currently enrolled in the MClin Dent program with BPP University City of London. Her key area of interest lies in looking at the whole body physiological coherence and its links with mouth breathing and dental caries, using biofeedback computer monitoring.