Shari Green

Shari Green, aka, The Thumblady tm has been a Certified Orofacial Myologist since 1998. She currently maintains a busy Orofacial Myology Practice in the Chicago area. Ms. Green began her career as a Dental Hygienst, and although retired from clinical dental hygiene, holds an active R.D.H., An Associates Degree in Clinical Dental Hygiene from Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois, Graduating Alpha Omega Dental, and a Bachelors Degree, Board of Governors from Northeastern Illinois University with an emphasis in psychology, graduating Cum Laude. Shari is a member of the prestigious Psychology Honor Society, Psi Chi, as well.

Ms. Green has written numerous professional research articles on music instrumentation and tongue posture, sleep cycles and thumbsucking, trichotillomania and thumbsucking, myofacial syndrome and orofacial myology, and lesion remediation and tongue thrust, and has lectured extensively to the IAOM on other diverse topics such as eating disorders, asepsis, marketing, fibromyalgia, and sleep cycles. She actively presents locally on the topics of tongue thrust and thumbsucking to numerous medical, dental, and speech professionals throughout her area. Ms. Green has appeared on Mom Talk Radio, Tracey Serebins Baby Experts, Fox News, NBC News, and has been seen in New York, People, Scholastic, Entrepreneur Magazine, Hygiene Town, Natural Jewish Parent, and Seventeen magazines. In addition, Ms. Green was interviewed extensively by book author, Pamela Paul, for œParenting, Inc., having been given a favorable “thumbs up” in an otherwise critical acclaim of parental outsourcing. She was filmed for the ABC News Show 20/20 which never aired, as well.

Ms. Green currently serves on the Board of Examiners, Board of Directors, and Education Committees of the International Association of Orofacial Myology, the governing body of professional practice for orofacial myofunctional professionals. Ms. Green was recently named the sole recipient of the Rose Van Norman Prevention Award for Excellence in Thumbsucking, an honor that Ms. Green considers her greatest lifetime achievement.This honor recognizes both her clinical achievements, and her extensive evidence based research that have led to numerous advancements in the field of thumbsucking and oral myofunctional habit remediation.