The Munch Bunch Podcast

What started as a straw to keep you from getting coffee stains on your teeth, has been found to help a host of other interesting things! We welcome Alice Stone, creator of the Sipify straw. The Sipify straw's benefits and design were to drink hot coffee with a straw that will bypass the front teeth, aerate the liquid to cool it down, flat design to help prevent spilling. Other professionals ha...

Hope and fear in the dental experience. Bringing the EMPATHY back to business. Soft skills are the people skills in dentistry. Communication, empathy, compassion, building trust with patients, making people feel comfortable and their concerns heard. Could connecting to your patients be the hidden key for career burnout? Helping to manage patients dental anxieties, being a gentle person who has com...

Loving yourself into your goals and desires, don't beat yourself up into your goals. The person you will become when you love yourself, is going to be more comprehensive and aligned. Today we had the gift of hosting our friend Allison Lacoursiere, Your Clear Aligner Coach, and host of "Clearly Worthy Podcast". We are going to dive into imposter syndrome and feelings of worthiness whe...

Key highlights: Cranial Distortions, craniofacial distortion, sphenoid strain, asymmetric face, plagiocephaly flat head syndrome, torticollis, cranial chiropractic adjustments, birth trauma, cranial nerves, Vagus nerve. Dr Martin Rosen, Chiropractor and Pediatric Craniopath will be teaching us about the 12 cranial nerves and their functions and dysfunction. We will discuss how babies develop and t...

Have you ever heard the ideal breath pattern? Would you be shocked it is 6 breaths per minute? The frequency of that breath is also 0.1 Hertz, could this be part of the secret to tapping into your spirit and inner peace? If you are like most people that makes you realize you probably breathed that many times as you read this! "Breath work is the new yoga". But how do you breathe when you...

Wanna get away? Do you need a few days to focus on you, to get clear on your vision for your life, and to release what is holding you back. Sometimes in life we just need a few days to focus on ourselves, to have time set aside to think and to dream, and to release the internal beliefs about ourselves that do not serve us. This retreat will be: business growth, relaxation and rejuvenation for mind...

Have you ever heard holistic dentistis talk about teeth and energy meridians, or teeth and chakras? Did this make you scratch your head in confusion? Here to explain it to us, we welcome back Dr Mary Afzali who has lectured on this for holistic dentists. Eastern Chinese Medicine uses energy meridians in the body when doing acupuncture, and even the teeth have connections to those energy meridians....

Dr David Alfi, oral surgeon and master of orthognathic double jaw surgery. Dr Alfi is really unique because he uses custom surgical plans so he can do a double jaw surgery in the same time it would take for a crown, 1 to 1.5 hours! Typical jaw surgery is closer to 8 hours! The other thing that makes Dr David Alfi unique is that his patients experience less pain and swelling than typical MMA surger...

Face Cupping for lymphatic drainage of the face and neck, guest The Facial Cupping Expert. You may have had cupping done where you get those intense bruise looking marks on the skin for a week, don't worry facial cupping is totally different. Face cupping using soft flexible silicone cups to help with tension in the face muscles, bring blood flow, help with elasticity in the skin, and helps wi...

Special guest Alexandra Svalastog, Medical Hypnotherapist, Cognitive Behavioral Hypnotherapist, and Stress consultant. She helps work with the illusive subconscious through hypnosis to rewire the brain to create good emotional health. If you listened to the previous episode "Worms That Poop In Your Mouth" where Nancy talked about her hypnotherapist she saw virtually in Norway, this is th...

This episode is truly special. Transitioning into another career, living a life of purpose and doing the thing you always wanted to do, not being defined by a disease diagnosis, and the healing power of faith and the power hidden in the subconscious even in the face of stage 4 ovarian cancer diagnosis. Nancy Fisher, dental hygienist who became an acupuncturist is inspiring enough just for that fea...

Building a community and a safe place to rant. Creating a space to get real and supporting each other in real life situations. Starting as a facebook group to vent about dentistry and to get feedback from other dental hygienists, it has become a place to let your hair down and get things off your chest. Hygiene is a wonderful career but it can be frustrating, exhausting, rewarding, draining, and f...

What is surf therapy? Using surfing as an intervention can help kids or adults with sensory processing disorders. Both profiles of sensory processing disorders can benefit, people with low awareness of their body and under active, and people who get too much stimuli with over active who need to down regulate. This can help with body awareness, proprioception, nervous regulation, balance, confidenc...

Who knew the pelvic floor had 3 layers? Did you know that you can get tight muscles and tension in the pelvic floor which can be the cause of back pain, sciatic pain, and pain with sex? We are gonna dive into all things vaginas, because you either have one or know someone who has one. As Dr Linda Sayyad says "No vaginas left behind"! We will talk about physical therapy for preparing for...

From the baby babbles and cooing, to the first dada sounds, those are early speech sounds and early communication. Here to teach us about speech milestones is Grace Bernales, known as Graceful Expression SLP from Pasadena California. Grace is an early intervention SLP who has helped with kids as young as 16 months and also recently got trained in Myofunctional Therapy. Grace will also teach us oth...

"You can't just flirt with sleep, you are all in or you are not." The Munch Bunch Podcast welcomes Dr Meghna Dassani, airway dentist in Houston Texas, podcaster of The Healthy Sleep Revolution, host of the Airway Is Life Summit, and author of "Airway is Life" and "The Tired Child". Dr Meghna Dassani will talk to us about her new book "The Tired Child", i...

Crosspod episode with Shelly Taft, IBCLC, Host of the Baby Pro Podcast. Shelley is going to talk about the baby signs of tongue ties or tension and common baby symptoms. The Munch Bunch will talk about the long term effects of missing the oral dysfunction and ties when they are missed as a baby and what that might look like with kids or adults. It's going to connect a lot of dots! We will also...

Microdosing, the new hot buzzword. Mushrooms, LSD, ketamine, MDMA. What are they, what is the therapeutic purpose, what does it help with? Did you know they have been researching magic mushrooms for years for treatment of depression, OCD, PTSD. There are even facilitators for the terminally ill to help people feel less afraid of dying. With the new plant laws being passed now to decriminalize plan...

Getting the brain benefits of deep sleep. This episode we talk with renowned sleep scientist “Dr Snooze” about: the SleepSpace app, sleep, insomnia, links between lack of deep sleep and dementia, marijuana as a sleep aid, and the “night cap” drink and how that changes sleep. Sleep Scientist Dr. Daniel Gartenberg aka “Dr. Snooze”, is a PHD recipient in Applied Psychology spending the last 15 years...

Did you know that nasal breathing is a 6 step filtration process? We hear about how the nose filters the air but you will need to listen to learn how it all works! This process cleans the air, disinfects and traps pathogens, and helps the body to fight invaders. Everything from the nose hairs, turbinates, sinuses, mucus, nitric oxide gas, adenoids, and tonsils. The moment we breathe with the mouth...

We welcome on Dr Shehab Faragallah, Dentist from Gold Coast Holistic Dental Care in Australia. Dr Shehab and his partner Dr Ibrahim El-Deeb created the Myospots, a product that helps with passive tongue posture and helps act like a tongue attractor to lift the tongue up into the palate. It is a great product we love for myofunctional therapy, because we want the lips together and tongue up in the...

Watch the clips we recorded from the “tequila and tongue tie” conference in Scottsdale on our instagram @themunchbunchpodcast We had a blast. It was good food, good hotel, awesome pediatric dentists, and a heck of a dance party fiesta. So in lieu of a full episode we got clips on our instagram so you can go watch them there. This conference was unique because it was all about the Waterlase by Biol...

Guest Kelley Quolas, Myofunctional Therapist and RDH. You may know her from the funny myo reels on @MyMyoMyHealth on Instagram and Tik Tok. Kelley has 2 practices, Phoenix and East Valley Arizona. What we think is super cool about Kelley is that she has SLP who work in her practices. There is drama and territorial behavior around who can provide myofunctional therapy which is: SLP, RDH, PT, OT, DD...

Ancestral dentistry, Dr Nick Koogler Breathe DDS has been doing some "caveman living experiments" on his body. He has been using a Miswak stick from the toothbrush tree, it is a stick humans have been using for thousands of years in the equatorial regions. He decided to stop brushing his teeth with a toothbrush and toothpaste and stopped flossing! His hypothesis was that diet is more imp...

Dr Ben Curtis, the President of The Tequila and Tongue Ties Conference in Scottsdale Arizona. The event is April 21-22 2023, at the Westin Kierland Resort and Spa. The event is sponsored by Waterlase. The theme is team implementation of tongue tie treatment. There will be guest speakers (listed below), 10+ CE credits, hands on use of the Waterlase erbium laser, how to build a tongue tie program, u...