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I was recently asked if ozone therapy is scientifically legitimate. It’s an excellent example of how challenging it can be to answer what may seem like a straightforward question. This difficulty is exacerbated by the culture of alternative medicine, which actively seeks to blur the lines of science and pseudoscience and exploit the complexity and gray zone of clinical evidence. …

You may be hearing the term “myofunctional therapy” more frequently these days, but it’s far from a new field of study. In fact, it’s been recognized in the orthodontic field since the early 1900s, when pioneers Edward H. Angle and Alfred R. Rogers first identified how dysfunction of the tongue can contribute to malocclusion and orthodontic relapse.1 Myofunctional therapy is …