The lips don't close. Exercise “lower lip” (lip area). Video: “How to correct an overbite”

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Efficiency. exercise prevents sagging of the lower lip. Strengthens the muscle depressing the lower lip. Core muscles. The muscle that depresses the lower lip (m.depressor labii inferioris) begins on the anterior surface of the lower jaw, between the mental foramen and the symphysis, and is partially covered by the muscle that depresses the angle of the mouth. The bundles of the muscle that depresses the lower lip pass upward and medially and are attached to the skin and mucous membrane of the lower lip. Action: pulling the lower lip down and somewhat laterally. Function: pulls the lower lip down and somewhat laterally, acting together with the muscle of the same name on the opposite side, it can turn the lip outward; participates in the formation of expressions of irony, sadness, disgust Number of repetitions. The exercise is performed 30 times, on the last count a static hold for a few seconds, after the exercise we blow through closed lips, as a horse does brrr... we relieve tension from the muscle.

Exercise “Lower lip” - video

Description of the exercise

The teeth are closed, the corners of the lips are relaxed. We lower only the lower lip down (imagine a point in the middle of the lip and pull it down), while the upper lip should be relaxed. Use your fingers to secure the area under the lower lip. The amplitude of the exercise is small. Errors during execution: 1. Lowering the lower jaw down. Relax your jaw and focus on working the muscles. 2. There is no need to strain your upper lip.

Other exercises for this area of ​​the face

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Rogers proposed a system of gymnastic exercises for treatment of maxillofacial deformities.
Basic provisions this training method underdeveloped and poorly functioning muscles of the maxillofacial skeleton can be formulated as follows.

1. Contractions of the muscles being exercised must be performed with maximum amplitude (span).
2. The intensity of contraction of such muscles should correspond to its physiological role, but not be excessive.
3. The speed and duration of muscle contractions must be adjusted to the characteristics of the movement being performed. At first they should be slow, gentle and carried out regularly.
4. Between two successive contractions, a rest pause of at least equal duration to the duration of the contraction itself is necessary.
5. Muscle contractions during each exercise are repeated several times until a feeling of slight local fatigue appears. This feeling of fatigue determines the duration of the exercise, beyond which you should not go.
6. Myogymnastics is used in children starting from 4 years of age.

V. S. Kurylenko put these rules into the basis of myogymnastics for dentoalveolar deformities and offers the following exercises.

Exercises for distal and deep bites.

1. The exercise is performed standing with the head slightly thrown back, arms extended along the body and pulled back. The lower jaw is pushed forward until the cutting edges of the lower teeth meet the upper teeth, and then moved posteriorly.
2. After one month, the same exercises are carried out with the only difference being that the lower jaw is pushed forward so that the lower front teeth are placed in front of the upper ones.
3. If the orbicularis oris muscle is underdeveloped (the lips are large, flaccid, turned out, do not close, the mouth is wide), the following exercises are useful: stretching the lips into a tube, as for whistling, and then stretching with the little fingers, as with a wide smile, alternately alternating such positions of the lips.
4. To exercise the orbicularis oris muscle, the index fingers are placed near the corners of the mouth, the lips are not closed, the child tries to close the lips. At this time, without changing the position of the fingers, they create an obstacle to closing the lips.

5. The following exercise is useful for the cheek muscles: puff out your cheeks, close your lips and rhythmically tap your cheeks with your fingertips.
6. If there is a deep bite, exercises 1, 2 can be recommended, and if facial muscles are underdeveloped, exercises 3, 4, 5 can be recommended.

Exercises for mesial occlusion.

1. With the tip of the tongue, the child should press on the palatal surfaces of the upper front teeth until the muscles become tired (for approximately 3-5 minutes).
2. With the head slightly thrown back, alternately open and close the mouth; when closing the mouth, try to reach the posterior edge of the hard palate with the tip of the thrown back tongue.
3. Pull your lower lip, especially if it is drooping, under your upper front teeth and then release it.

Open bite exercises.

1. Press your outstretched fingers in the area of ​​the corners of the lower jaw, set the lower jaw at rest (lower by 1-2 mm), tensing the muscles, clench your teeth, and then take the first position again. Repeat the exercise until the masticatory muscle feels tired.
2. Bite a wooden handle covered with a rubber tube or a school gum with your side teeth.

Exercises for oblique bite.

If the oblique bite is caused by a displacement of the lower jaw to the side, you can use the following exercise: the mouth is opened as much as possible and the lower jaw is moved towards the incorrect closure of the teeth (the lower teeth overlap the upper teeth), then in this position the lower jaw is raised until the teeth are closed and held for 4-5 seconds in this position, after which they are lowered again.

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A basic set of exercises for the prevention or correction of dental anomalies:

Basic rules for conducting therapeutic myogymnastics:
- muscle contractions should be performed with maximum amplitude, 3-4 times a day for 5-10 minutes.

Normalization of breathing - performed during morning exercises, physical education lessons, and while walking.

  1. Initial position - posture must be correct:
    1. Keep your head and torso straight.
    2. The shoulders are slightly pulled back with the arms hanging down.
    3. The chest should be unfolded.
    4. Elbow joints pressed to the back
    5. The stomach is tucked up
    6. Legs in a straight position (knee joints straightened).
  2. Subsequence: inhale completely through the nose due to the movement of the abdominal muscles, and exhale using the chest, again through the nose. Repeat up to 12 times.

Exercises to normalize the function of lip closure :

Starting position: sitting in front of a mirror, keep your head straight, shoulders slightly back and slightly lowered, chest turned out, knee joints bent, legs together, heels together, stomach tucked:

Exercise N 1. Pull your lips forward, close them, draw a tube, stretch them wide;

Exercise N 2. Pull your lips forward, close them, depict a mouthpiece, proboscis (you can say something, hold it for a few seconds and return it back.)

Exercise N 3. Close your lips, puff out your cheeks, slowly squeeze the air through your compressed lips with your fists;

Exercise No. 4. Close your lips, then move them alternately to the right and left;

Exercise N 5. Close your lips, blow air under the upper lip, then under the lower lip;

Exercise N 6. Place the bent little fingers in the corners of the mouth, do not close the lips, spread the fingers slightly to the sides, close the lips;

Exercise No. 7. Blow out a stream of air with force (“a breeze is blowing”, “let’s put out the candle”, “let’s make a storm”, etc.).

Exercises to train the muscles of the tongue and normalize the type of swallowing:

Starting position: sitting in front of a mirror, head held straight, shoulders slightly back and slightly lowered, chest turned out, stomach tucked, knees bent, legs together, heels together;

Exercise No. 1. "Watch". The mouth is open, the tongue makes slow circular movements along the upper lip, then along the lower lip;

Exercise No. 2. “Let’s punish the naughty tongue.” Place your tongue on your lower lip and slap it with your upper lip “na-na”;

Exercise No. 3. “We will paint the ceiling.” It's time to paint the rooms, they invited a painter, he comes to the old house with a new brush and bucket. Your tongues are a brush, the hard palate is the ceiling...;

Exercise No. 4. Depict the operation of a jackhammer. DDDD...;

Exercise No. 5. "Riders". Sit astride a chair and, opening your mouth wide, click your tongue;

Exercise N 6. Lift the tongue up, press it to the anterior part of the hard palate in the area of ​​the palatine folds. Clench your teeth, swallow saliva, fixing the position of your tongue;

Exercise N 7. Raise the tip of the tongue up, position it at the anterior part of the hard palate. Move the tongue along the arch of the hard palate as far back as possible to the soft palate;

Exercise No. 8. Raise the tip of the tongue up, position it at the anterior part of the hard palate. Move your tongue along the palatal surface of the teeth on the right and left, touching each tooth.

In this exercise we learn how to swallow correctly. Use a mirror to make sure your lips and chin do not move during this exercise.
1. Use the tip of your tongue to find "rest point".
2. Close your lips, lightly clench your back teeth.
3. Press your tongue to the roof of your mouth without touching your front teeth.
4. Feel the back of your tongue moving upward.
5. Now swallow calmly and feel how the saliva moves smoothly and in waves from the tip of the tongue to its base.
6. The lips and chin should be motionless - check this by looking in the mirror. If you notice movement, repeat the exercise again in front of the mirror.
Remember, when swallowing, your lips and chin should not move or tense. Do this exercise for at least 2 minutes,

Exercises to train the muscles that lift the mandible:

Exercise N 1. Keep your lips closed, clench your teeth. Increase pressure on the teeth by contracting the masticatory muscles;

Exercise N 2. Open your mouth, place your index and middle fingers on the teeth and lateral areas of the lower jaw. Close your mouth, resisting the pressure of your hands. For this exercise, you can use a wooden stick with a rubber tube on it.



Exercises for distal and deep bites:



1. exercises are performed standing with the head slightly thrown back, arms extended along the body and pulled back. The lower jaw is pushed forward until the cutting edges of the lower incisors meet the upper ones, and then moved posteriorly.

2. A month later, the same exercises are carried out with the only difference being that the lower jaw is pushed forward so that the lower front teeth are placed in front of the upper ones.


Exercises for mesial occlusion:

1. With the tip of the tongue, the child should press on the palatal surfaces of the upper front teeth until the muscles become tired (for approximately 3-5 minutes).

2. With the head slightly thrown back, alternately open and close the mouth; when closing the mouth, try to reach the posterior edge of the hard palate with the tip of the thrown back tongue.

3. Pull your lower lip, especially if it is drooping, under your upper front teeth and then release it.

Exercises for mesial occlusion. 1. With the tip of the tongue, the child should press on the palatal surfaces of the upper front teeth until the muscles become tired (for approximately 3-5 minutes). 2. With the head slightly thrown back, alternately open and close the mouth; when closing the mouth, try to reach the posterior edge of the hard palate with the tip of the thrown back tongue. 3. Pull your lower lip, especially if it is drooping, under your upper front teeth and then release it.

An open bite is a relationship of the front teeth when, when the teeth are closed, some of them do not close. In some cases, only the front teeth do not close together, while in others (very rare cases) only one or two last molars close together.

With an open bite, the deformity is most often localized in the frontal part of the upper jaw, and with more severe forms of open bite, the lower jaw may also be affected.

Reasons for the development of open bite (etiological moment):

  • heredity;
  • maternal illness during pregnancy;
  • atypical position of tooth buds;
  • diseases of early childhood (especially rickets), in the presence of which additional load on the alveolar processes leads to their atrophy and reversal of the angle of the lower jaw;
  • dysfunction of the endocrine glands;
  • disturbance of mineral metabolism;
  • bad habits of the baby (sucking fingers, tongue, biting nails, pencils);
  • nasal breathing;
  • incorrect position of the child during sleep (head thrown back);
  • injury;
  • clefts of the alveolar process and palate.

With an open bite, speech and chewing functions are severely impaired. There is an open bite in the primary dentition, at the beginning of teeth change (7-8 years), and at an older age. Traumatic open bite is more common in the primary dentition, since the sucking habit is more developed in young children. Once the cause is eliminated, the deformity usually corrects itself. In some cases, the bad habit continues until the period of permanent occlusion - then the changes caused by it become more permanent. Open bite can be in the form of an independent form or in the form of prognathia or progenia.

The face of patients with an open bite is elongated and has a tense expression due to constant attempts to “tighten the lips.” The height of the lower third of the face is often increased. There is a shortening of the branches of the lower jaw: the angle can be turned around and in severe forms reaches 135-145°. The chin is quite powerful, but drooped downwards and appears slanted (pulled back). The upper lip is most often shortened and flaccid; the lower lip is somewhat tense. The lips do not close at all and the mouth is slightly open or closes with tension. With the mouth open, the cutting edges of the front teeth and the tongue, which closes the gap between the upper and lower front teeth, are visible from under the upper lip. The mental and nasolabial furrows are usually smoothed. The degree of disturbance in appearance mainly depends on the severity of the anomaly.

Treatment of open bite.

During milk bite Mainly preventive measures are used - they identify and eliminate the existing cause of anomalies (rickets, bad habit), recommend the child food with a dense consistency, myogymnastics for the orbicularis oris muscle, a chin sling with a vertically directed rubber rod. Particularly important during this period is early, timely treatment and preservation of baby teeth; in the absence of lateral teeth, prosthetics are indicated. An important role is also played by the normalization of speech, nasal breathing, tongue function (moving its frenulum) and swallowing (proper artificial feeding). To normalize the function of the tongue for children, it is recommended to swallow liquid or saliva with the teeth closed. At this time, the tip of the tongue should be pressed against the transverse folds of the hard palate.

For milk and early mixed dentition orthodontic treatment most often combined with preventive measures. For treatment, expansion plates with screws, springs, and vestibular arches are used for the upper jaw (if it is narrowed), sometimes in combination with a tongue stop in the anterior area. The action of these devices is designed to change the tone of the masticatory muscles and the restructuring of the bone tissue of the alveolar processes in the lateral areas, as well as to normalize the function of the tongue, especially during swallowing. It is advisable to combine such devices with an extraoral bandage and a chin sling, with a vertical rubber rod.

In permanent dentition, the most effective treatment will be the use of fixed equipment, that is, braces. If an open bite is observed with prognathia or progenia, its treatment is carried out simultaneously with the treatment of the main anomaly. For severe open bites in adults, orthodontic treatment is effective after preliminary surgical intervention in the anterior or lateral areas of the jaw. Previously, the treatment of open bite was approached extremely radically, entire groups of teeth were removed, followed by resecting the alveolar process. The resulting defect was then replaced with removable dentures. There were often cases of cutting down the cusps of teeth and even half of a tooth with preliminary devitalization of the nerve. Fortunately, such “draconian” methods of treatment in most cases are not used in our time. At the Dental Smile Center The issue of removing teeth, especially permanent ones, is approached with extreme caution. Moreover, serial tooth extraction should be based on a comprehensive analysis that would make it possible to predict the growth of the lower jaw.

Hello dear readers and blog subscribers!
Today I will tell you what lip exercises there are for children and what role they play in improving diction. You've probably noticed how difficult it can sometimes be to understand a person. When he speaks, almost without opening his mouth or his lip line (D) is slightly slanted, one corner of his mouth is higher than the other. This could be either a symptom of some neurological pathology or malocclusion.

This should be addressed to the appropriate specialists, a neurologist or an orthodontist. We will talk about how to make sure that this does not prevent us from speaking clearly and understandably. Let's start with the fact that articulation exercises for G are closely related to gymnastics for the cheeks and various breathing exercises. And also with a massage of the muscles of the mouth and surrounding areas. If the muscles of the upper and lower G have impaired tone and do not close well, then it is difficult for the child to even blow a piece of cotton wool from the palm of his hand.

That is, the air stream does not participate in the formation of sounds, speech is very poor and often spontaneous. Tension G leads to tension in other muscles: the tongue and cheeks. Therefore, when examining a child, the speech therapist attaches great importance to the child’s skills in controlling the air stream. The baby is asked to blow in at least 3 ways:

  • blow through closed lips, sound like “pfft”
  • purse your lips like “fff”, blow like a dandelion
  • with mouth slightly open, as if we want to warm our hands “xxxxx”

At the same time, we observe whether the Gs close, whether they fold into a tube, whether the cheeks puff out. Very often, children cannot blow at all, this happens with an incorrect bite, when the teeth do not close, with dysarthria, the air spreads into the cheeks and they puff up, very weak exhalation with adenoids. If there are no back-lingual sounds, G-K-H, then the sound produced is not “xxx”, but something like “tss”.

It happens that a child can somehow blow. But at the same time, the stream of air is so unfocused that it is impossible to blow out a soap bubble or make a “whoa.” And besides, the result is not a “tube” with the tongue, but something similar to a pig’s snout. When the baby tries to smile, there is a curvature of the line of the mouth, one corner is higher, the other is lower. If you take a closer look at the nasolabial folds, you will notice their smoothing and asymmetry.

Types of articulatory gymnastics

All these are signs of neurological abnormalities. Neurology can be quite mild, the baby is not registered at the clinic, but it can interfere with the formation of full speech. Articulation gymnastics will help correct this; it should be done regularly, combined with breathing, voice and speech therapy massage. Gymnastics can be active and passive, static and dynamic. Let's consider all these types, in combination with breathing and massaging.

With passive gymnastics, the child cannot complete the task on his own; an adult helps him. He takes it G with his fingers, stretches them or, on the contrary, collects them into a tube, closes them and performs other necessary actions, gradually teaching the child to do this himself. In this case, there should be support for the visual analyzer in order to control the process; it is advisable to do everything next to the mirror.

Combination and sequence of different types

The sequence is as follows: an adult and a child sit in front of a mirror, the adult points to himself, asks him to repeat, if the child does not succeed, the adult does it for him with his fingers, then the child tries to do it himself, and then tries to do it without using his hands. This is already active gymnastics, maybe not right away, periodically helping with your fingers. The main thing is not to rush, the execution must be precise and correct, so that later you don’t have to relearn.

Passive gymnastics is closely related to massage, or rather, massage smoothly flows into passive gymnastics. You need to clearly know that all exercises must be performed by first relaxing G. You cannot do them with tightly closed, tense muscles. And there will be little use and the child will experience discomfort and negativity, and may refuse to study altogether.

To begin with, it is advisable to teach your child to feel the difference between tense and relaxed lips, to tell him: “You feel how pleasant and good it is when your lips are soft, how beautiful they are.” Fix his attention that when the Gs are tense, they are thin, pale, and when relaxed they are bright, “bow-like”. When making sounds, it is very important that neither the jaw nor the lips tense. The mouth was wide open, otherwise it would be very difficult to work on correcting phonetics.

During static gymnastics, Gs are held in one position for some time, for example, counting to 10. The “tube” exercise is performed, the children hold it, and you count. And so several times, then “fence” and again keep in this position. With dynamic gymnastics, on the contrary, there is an active work of G, “fence - tube”, you need to work G, either stretching them and showing your teeth, or pulling them forward into a tube, also counting in several steps.

Move on to dynamic gymnastics when each exercise has already been practiced, is automated, and the child does it flawlessly. It is allowed to help with your hands, if a malfunction suddenly occurs, it can be combined with voice gymnastics, pronounced with a tube U, and with a fence I at different tempos, sometimes quickly, then slowly, then quieter, then louder, then in a thin voice, then in a “thick” one.

Static exercises of articulatory gymnastics

  • lips, also called “trunk” or “elephant”, lips stretch forward, as when pronouncing the sound U
  • , open smile, show teeth, as when pronouncing the sound I
  • closed smile with just lips
  • open, also called “window”, open your mouth wide - “open the window in the house”
  • the house is closed - lips together, pressed tightly
  • lock, cover the lower lip with the upper lip, which is pulled slightly into the mouth
  • key, on the contrary, lower upper
  • Whoa, close your lips, stretch them forward slightly and make a vibrating sound
  • show your upper teeth, raise your upper lip and show your upper teeth
  • show your lower teeth, lower your upper lip, pull back your lower lip
  • snout, pull your lips forward, widen them slightly
  • mouthpiece, also called “window” or “donut”, lips as when pronouncing O

Dynamic gymnastics for children

    • fence - pipe (frog - elephant)
    • open and close your mouth, slap your lips, making a soft sound
    • “air kiss”, we stretch our lips forward (as for a kiss) - then we retract our cheeks so that the corners of our mouth touch, like a fish’s

  • bite the upper lip, then the lower, “comb your lips”
  • smile - tube
  • the house is open - closed, close your lips, straining them, open your mouth wide, relaxing
    show first the upper lips, then the lower ones, then all at once, a little fence
  • make faces - move your jaw left and right
  • snout - tube
  • window - house open - tube - fence - O - A - U - I
  • charge for the trunk, twist the tube clockwise and counterclockwise, up and down, left and right. Look at the elephant, how it moves its trunk.

Gymnastics in a playful way

Breathing games go well with these exercises. The kid doesn't want to study, let's play. He doesn’t want to close G, so we blow the cotton wool off his palm and show him how fun it is to do “pfft,” as if a butterfly had fluttered from his palm. You need to lift the lower G up - put some cotton wool on your nose and blow from your lower lip. The horse gallops, we click our tongue and then it stops, “trrrr”, it doesn’t work, we play on our lips like a balalaika.

The game with soap bubbles goes well. It’s very fun to watch them fly, shimmering with rainbow stains. “Now blow it yourself!” - tell the baby. It may not work out right away, it’s okay, encourage the child. Take turns blowing with him, he either catches them with his hands or blows. You can also move your hand around the ring and the bubbles will also fly away.

Toys such as a harmonica, a pipe, a whistle, and various pipes and whistles can also help. as well as inflating balloons. Of course, this requires more complex skills, well-trained G muscles, the ability to hold a toy with your lips and at the same time draw in air and exhale without releasing the object from your mouth. Therefore, it’s okay if at first the pipe falls out along with the exhalation, and air is drawn in from the ball, this will work out over time.

Sweet gymnastics

You can also use “simulators”, various sweet sticks, worms and sucking candies. Children can hold them between G, inside the “tube”. And also press your “proboscis” to your nose, holding the sticks like a mustache. Spit out pieces of cookies and chocolate between your lips or take them from a saucer with your lips, “feed like chicks.”

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