The Movement · Est. 1969
Threegenerations,one inquiry.
What began as one observer's question has, over sixty years, become a worldwide study. Educators, students, and self-directed learners gathered around a single body of work.
57
Years of inquiry
3
Generations
40+
Countries reached
1
Organising idea
Lineage
A continuous thread, 1969 → Today.
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Beyond this site
Organisations with similar perspective & further reading.
The wider network sharing this inquiry — organisations doing the clinical work, and books that translate it for the public.
Allied organisations
A shared clinical mission.
Interdisciplinary airway & sleep medicine
- AAPMD
American Academy of Physiological Medicine and Dentistry — pioneers of the Collaboration Cures movement, uniting ENTs, paediatric dentists, myofunctional therapists, and physical therapists.
- BADSM
British Association of Dental Sleep Medicine — trains dental professionals to screen for sleep-disordered breathing and manage patients in a multidisciplinary pathway.
FAH
Foundation for Airway Health — public-interest arm of the AAPMD, educating patients and providers on airway restriction, mouth breathing, and improper jaw growth.
Paediatric & early intervention
- ASAP Pathway
Airway, Sleep, and Pediatrics — clinical and educational network training dentists to identify airway issues in early critical growth years.
- The Synergy Academy
Neurodevelopmental Dentistry — integrative approach linking jaw alignment, deep sleep, and global childhood development.
Myofunctional & muscle function
- AOMT
Academy of Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy — international body expanding research and curriculum on tongue posture, muscle dysfunction, and sleep-disordered breathing.
Global policy
- FDI World Dental Federation
Global oral-health policy body that has increasingly integrated the dentist's role in identifying and preventing sleep-related breathing disorders.
Shared emphasis: interdisciplinary collaboration, early paediatric screening, and treating the structural root causes of sleep-disordered breathing and craniofacial restriction.
Reading list
Books that carry the idea further.
- 01Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor
International bestseller devoting major sections to evolutionary facial change — how soft industrial diets stopped stimulating our jaw muscles, causing mouths to shrink, faces to elongate, and airways to narrow.
- 02Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic
Sandra Kahn & Paul R. Ehrlich
A forward-thinking orthodontist and a Stanford biologist lay out the forward-growth movement (Orthotropics) and offer actionable advice for parents: hard chewing, proper oral posture, nasal breathing.
- 03Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
The critical companion piece to the craniofacial story. Walker names Obstructive Sleep Apnea as a deadly epidemic destroying deep-sleep quality — books like Jaws pick up where he leaves off, explaining the structural cause.
- 04Sleep-Wrecked Kids
Sharon Moore
A natural bridge between paediatric jaw growth and sleep quality — translating the craniofacial–airway link into practical guidance for parents.
- 05The Oxygen Advantage
Patrick McKeown
Links functional breathing, athletic performance, and craniofacial growth. The tongue is meant to rest against the roof of the mouth: with nasal breathing and sealed lips it becomes an internal orthopaedic scaffold, widening the palate and driving the face forward.
- 06The Dental Distress Syndrome
A. C. Fonder
An older but deeply influential text. Fonder was among the first to document how malocclusion and improper jaw positioning trigger chain reactions through the nervous system — spinal misalignment, chronic headaches, digestive issues.
- 07Breathe 4.0: The Magic of Up-Lock Breathing
Sandra Kahn & Wilfried Engelke
The concrete physical blueprint. Where Jaws named the epidemic and The Oxygen Advantage popularised nasal breathing, Breathe 4.0 shows craniofacial development is governed by internal oral-pressure gradients — mastering the Up-Lock vacuum is essential to shaping the human face.