Lip Incompetence
Inability to maintain comfortable lip closure
A normal oral rest posture includes lips that remain comfortably closed without compensation or straining from nearby muscles. When the lips do not meet at rest and the mentalis muscle (on your chin) strains during closing, this is known as lip incompetence. Lip Incompetence is a type of Orofacial Myofunctional Disorder (OMD)
Lip Incompetence may be interrelated to tongue-thrusting, digit-sucking or chronic airway obstruction from allergies or enlarged tonsils or adenoids. Lip incompetence not only can have negative cosmetic consequences, but it can also lead to excessive drooling, messy eating, or sleep apnea if the patient is also mouth-breathing.
A Myofunctional Therapist works closely with the necessary specialists such as ENT’s and allergists to help resolve negative structural factors that could be contributing to Lip Incompetence while simultaneously providing myofunctional therapy. If the reason behind the lip incompetency is more habitually based, the client will benefit greatly from myofunctional therapy alone.
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