Facial fillers can lift and plump, but what if a simple workout could achieve similar results without the needles? Enter myofunctional therapy, a noninvasive technique that uses targeted exercises to ...

Even the mundane act of swallowing requires a well-coordinated dance of more than 30 muscles of the mouth. The loss of function of even one of these, due to disease or injury, can be extremely ...

I love facials, especially anything incorporating cutting-edge, high-tech devices like microneeding and radiofrequency, or super hydrating, glow-inducing treatments with lots of masks and serums. I've ...

GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL breathing, first described by Dail 1 in 1951, is a technic for ventilating the lungs that does not require the use of the muscles of respiration. Instead, the muscles of the mouth and ...

Of the 43 muscles that comprise the human face, only a few are actually important to speaking. And yet replicating the movements of the mouth by mechanical means always seems to end up only partly ...

Have you ever noticed that you open your mouth when applying mascara to your lashes? It's an involuntary gesture that often ...

During intense exercise—sprinting, for example—your body breaks down glucose and produces what’s called lactate. That substance can build up faster than it can be further processed. If your idea of a ...

Dear Doctors: A few weeks ago, one side of my dad’s face became paralyzed. He couldn’t close his left eye, and the left side of his mouth wouldn’t work. We thought it was a stroke, but the ER doctors ...

The mouth starts the digestion process by breaking food down into a more easily digestible form. It does this through a combination of mechanical and chemical digestion. After people take food in ...