tongue thrusting

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Tongue-Thrusting
Tongue-Thrusting

Patient Education

Tongue-Thrusting

Train that Tongue Without therapy, the wrong oral habits, sooner or later, will cause tooth movement, breathing and speech problems You'd think swallowing is easy as falling off a log. But some of us need help retraining muscles that we've been using wrong all along. A "bad" swallow is just the luck of the draw, usually caused by unbalanced facial muscles or enlarged tonsils. When you swallow normally (and we do it about 2,000 times a day), the tip of the tongue is against [...]

By Diamond Dental of Sacramento|2017-04-11T00:00:14-07:00April 11, 2017|Patient Education|

What Did You Say?
What Did You Say?

Children's Dentistry

What Did You Say?

We've all heard young children speak "baby talk." Sometimes it can sound endearing—or it may be a speech defect. In early infancy, babies begin to make vowel sounds, usually mastered by age three. Consonant sounds are more difficult and come a little later on. By the eighth birthday, most children can pronounce all consonants and are 100% intelligible. But some children have more difficulty with speech and may need help learning. Lisping—The most common speech defect is lisping, which is relatively easy to correct. [...]

By Diamond Dental of Sacramento|2017-01-24T00:00:06-08:00January 24, 2017|Children's Dentistry|