Meet Our Founders
Dr. Leslie Pasco
DMD, CBBI, QOM
As a general dentist for over 25 years, a consultant, and a professional speaker to the healthcare industry, Dr. Leslie has experienced the dental profession in almost every way. In treating hundreds of thousands of patients over her career and observing a serious health pandemic afflicting our population, Dr. Leslie, also a trained Orofacial Myologist and Certified Buteyko Breathing Instructor, is now dedicating the remaining years of her career to providing myofunctional therapy options to help children grow and develop their jaws and airways properly so they can breathe right and live better for a lifetime.
Dr. Leslie says, "today's societies are plagued by underdeveloped jaws, crooked teeth and restricted airways. More than 95% of Americans have deviations in dental alignment, meaning that the jaws have developed poorly leaving little room for the tongue and teeth. An estimated 30 million Americans have sleep apnea and 8 Million people in the United States use C-Pap machines while it is estimated that 33 million American adults could benefit from C-Pap use. History is showing that this is not genetic but a result of advanced agriculture producing softer processed foods and environmental pollutants that can lead to mouth breathing. The focus of almost all dentists and orthodontic practitioners today is on straightening crooked teeth. However, science and research has proven that early intervention and training of the oral muscles such as the lips, tongue and cheeks, can prevent underdeveloped jaws and airways thereby enhancing children’s ability to reach their full growth, breathing and living potential."
Upon digging deeper into the science behind this, studying the research, and finding that the symptoms of underdeveloped jaws are revealed very frequently as serious diseases such as sleep related breathing disorders (SRBD) which are connected to obesity, heart disease, anxiety, depression, hyperactivity and even dementia, Dr. Leslie could not ignore the situation and made it her mission to develop a plan to provide children with early intervention myofunctional therapy using special medical grade, FDA approved appliances pair with activities in an easy and affordable manner that can help lessen or eliminate the possibility of a child experiencing these symptoms.
Since the maximum facial development happens by the age of 2 years and 60% of the facial growth is completed by the age of 6 years, Dr. Leslie provides her programs to children, from birth and up, in a child friendly environment at Myoway Centers for Kids. Dr. Leslie's dream is to see the MyoWay Centers for Kids programs available to all children in the United States to help eliminate the “small jaw” pandemic and hopefully curb disease in our society by preventing it at an early age. Programs are both available locally and virtually so the center can help as many children as possible. Dr. Leslie says "I know in my heart that our programs are a part of the solution to healthcare in our society, and because our children are the future, there is no better place to start."
Glenn Bartifay
ESQ
Glenn Bartifay has been an attorney since 1993. He is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania state courts and has been admitted in the Western District Court of Pennsylvania and the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals. He is also a licensed Pennsylvania title insurance agent and notary public. Attorney Bartifay practiced with Alan Hertzberg & Associates from 1993 to 1996 and Hertzberg & Bartifay, P.C. from 1996 to 1999. From 1999 through 2023, he owned and operated Bartifay Law Offices, P.C., which had a practice emphasis in consumer bankruptcy and home retention, along with estates and trusts, real estate title, corporate formation and transactions, and civil litigation. He joined Mazurkraemer Law Group in 2023 and is overseeing the consumer bankruptcy and home retention division.
Attorney Bartifay has served as presenter several times for legal seminars on mortgage foreclosure defense. He has helped thousands of clients over the years with personal financial reorganization and retaining their residences. Attorney Bartifay served as corporate counsel for North American Title Insurance Company from 2013 to 2014 and for Assured Settlement Solutions, LLC from 2015 to 2019. He has been entrepreneurial in businesses other than law firms. He formed Renaissance Settlements, LLC in 1999, which was a real estate settlement company that, at its peak, operated in thirteen states, had five offices, and performed three hundred closings monthly. He sold his interest in that company in 2007. He formed Attorney Partners Settlement, L.P., a Pennsylvania real estate settlement agency, in 2014 and merged it with Assured Settlement Solutions, LLC in 2015. Attorney Bartifay invested in a dental practice known as LiveWell Dentistry in 2021 through a dental services organization and sold his interest in that venture in 2023. He is a principal in Christian Real Estate Holdings, Inc. He authored a science fiction novel which he hopes to publish in the near future.
Attorney Bartifay graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1993 in the top 25% of his class. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a Master of Science Degree in Exercise Physiology in 1989 with a 3.7 GPA. Attorney Bartifay graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physical Education in 1986 from Boise State University, where he was an Academic All-American and scholarship recipient. He was a gymnastics competitor in college and coached that sport in Idaho and Canada before returning to his home state of Pennsylvania. He lives in Wexford, Pennsylvania with his wife, is active in his church, and loves to travel, try the wonderful restaurants in the Pittsburgh area, and get in his exercise at the gym several times a week.
