The myofunctional therapy training cost most people quote is tuition, and tuition is one line on a longer bill. The full bill adds your own hours, the stretch between finishing and earning, and a separate business build that clinical training doesn’t cover. Current LMT60 tuition lives on its sales page, and the rest is what this post adds up.
A dental hygienist asked me which myofunctional therapy course she should take, and I understand why that’s the first question. It just isn’t the first one I’d ask, because the number she’s about to compare is one of four.
I started my training in January 2017, my first paying client came in May, and I kept working as a hygienist until August 2018. For fifteen months after that first paying client I was still working as a hygienist, and none of that stretch showed up on any invoice from my training.
Tuition gets a price tag. Everything else gets absorbed by your evenings, your savings, and your patience, which is exactly why people leave it out when they add things up.
What the tuition buys
LMT60, short for Learn Myofunctional Therapy in 60 Days (or Less), is my clinical training, self-paced and online, with six modules and more than 30 lessons covering an introduction to orofacial myofunctional therapy, airway and orthodontics, tongue ties, sleep and breathing, and the therapy itself.
What the tuition buys is clinical knowledge. It doesn’t buy clinical competence, and it doesn’t buy clients. Knowledge turns into competence through cases, and competence turns into a practice through a business, and each of those steps has its own cost.
The three costs nobody prices in
Your time. LMT60 is self-paced, which means you set the pace and you pay for it in evenings and weekends. Those are hours you won’t spend with your family or asleep, and if you’re already worn out from the operatory, count them as the expensive hours they are. I wrote up how long the training itself takes so you can plan around it.
The gap before income. Training doesn’t produce clients. Between finishing and earning there’s a stretch, and its length depends on your market, your effort, your offer, and your follow-through, so I won’t hand you a number. Hygienists who’ve written about leaving clinical practice describe an initial pay decrease and sometimes further education costs as ordinary parts of a career transition.
Before you buy anything, write down what you need each month to keep your life running, and decide how many months of that you can cover without the practice paying you a dime.
The business build. Clinical training teaches the therapy. LMT60 doesn’t teach business, and I’d be lying if I let the price of the course imply that it did. A 2025 study in the Journal of Dental Hygiene named business management among five core themes for hygienists practicing myofunctional therapy, so this gap is built into the field and isn’t a flaw in you.
The business build is a separate step with its own cost and its own timeline. I coach it inside The Profitable Myofunctional Therapist™, which is for myofunctional therapists who are already open and seeing clients, and I’m not folding it into this math to make the total look friendlier. I lay out the order of that work in your first 60 days of building a practice.
Add it up on paper
Here’s the arithmetic I’d do with a pen. Take the tuition from the LMT60 page, add the evenings you’ll give up, add the months of expenses you can cover with no practice income, and add the cost of learning the business side.
Then look at the total and ask whether your life can carry it right now. If it can, you go in knowing exactly what you signed up for. If it can’t, you just found that out for the price of a blog post.
Is it worth it
I can’t tell you whether training pays off in your market, with your effort, your offer, and your follow-through, and I’m wary of anyone who says they can. What I can tell you is that you aren’t buying into something invented to sell courses. A 2015 systematic review and meta-analysis in Sleep pooled nine adult studies and two pediatric studies of myofunctional therapy for obstructive sleep apnea, which tells you researchers are studying this work. It doesn’t tell you what any one therapist will earn, and I’m not implying it does.
Friend, you become a business owner the minute you start this, so budget like one. Tuition is a single line on a bill with four, and nobody else is going to add up the other three for you.
Ready to look at LMT60?
LMT60 is the clinical training, and the current tuition is on that page, so you can set it beside the other three lines and see your full myofunctional therapy training cost. If you want help working out your next step before you spend anything, you can book a Get Unstuck Call.
Xo,
💙 Carmen
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does myofunctional therapy training cost?
Tuition differs by program, so check each one’s current figure on its own page. LMT60’s tuition is on its sales page. Tuition is only part of the cost, because your study hours, the income gap between finishing and earning, and the separate business build all belong in the total.
What are the hidden costs of myofunctional therapy training?
Three, and they’re easy to skip: your own hours, the stretch between finishing and earning, and the separate cost of learning to run a practice. If you want to hear what surprised other people, the community is here.
Does myofunctional therapy training include business training?
Clinical training teaches the therapy. LMT60 doesn’t teach business, and business management is a separate build that comes after the training. Here’s what the training covers.
How do I compare myofunctional therapy courses by cost?
Compare what’s inside before you compare fees, because the figure on its own tells you little. I wrote up how I’d vet a myofunctional therapist course, and the best courses guide covers comparing programs side by side.
Is myofunctional therapy training worth the cost?
I can’t answer that for you, and nobody can responsibly promise it. It depends on your market, your effort, your offer, your consistency, and your follow-through. Add up all four cost lines first, then decide.
About Carmen Ball
Carmen Ball (formerly Carmen Woodland) is a renowned, global myofunctional therapist, business coach, and host of The Profitable Myofunctional Therapist™ podcast. Over the past decade, she has helped thousands of people in her private myofunctional therapy practice (Impact Myofunctional Therapy – formerly Integrative Myofunctional Therapy) and coached hundreds of trained therapists to build profitable online businesses of their own. She is the creator of The Profitable Myofunctional Therapist™ program and Learn Myofunctional Therapy in 60 Days or Less (LMT60), a clinical training program for dental and health professionals. Carmen’s approach is simple: you already have the skills and the license. Now let’s build the business around them. She works with therapists around the world who are ready to stop spinning their wheels and start building a business they are genuinely bonkers about.
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