The dangers of children eating their lips

Children don’t understand anything, and if the people around them have bad habits, they are likely to imitate them. Bad habits in children often manifest as biting things randomly, especially sucking their lips. If the child is young, it may not be a big problem. However, if the child still has this problem when he grows up, the mother should pay attention. Want to know the dangers of children eating their lips? Let’s find out through the following content!

Children's lip tissue is not only delicate, but also contains rich blood vessels and nerves. Some children often have the bad habit of constantly rubbing or biting their lips with their upper front teeth, which can easily cause mechanical compression and blockage of the small gland excretion ducts under the lip mucosa. As a result, the mucus cannot be discharged, causing the gland wall to gradually swell and the gland tissue to degenerate, forming this transparent bluish cystic tumor. When it expands to a certain extent, it will burst on its own. However, the duct is still blocked, so as long as the surface mucosal epithelium heals in a few days, the cyst fluid will accumulate and swell again.

It can be seen that the occurrence of mucocele is closely related to the bad habit of children biting their lower lips. The key to prevention is to correct children's lip biting habit in time. Under normal circumstances, the teeth are located between the lips and tongue, and the pressure of the tongue muscles and the lip and cheek muscles is in a balanced state inside and outside the teeth. This plays a very important role in maintaining the normal arrangement of teeth and the natural shape of the lips. Especially during the growth and development period of children, if children have the habit of biting their lips, this internal and external balance will be destroyed, which will inevitably destroy the arrangement of teeth and the natural state of the lips, resulting in a series of deformities.

Biting the lower lip will put pressure on the lingual side of the upper front teeth and the labial side of the lower front teeth (referring to the upper and lower incisors). This abnormal pressure will push the upper incisors to gradually tilt forward and force the lower incisors to move backward. As a result, the upper incisors are over-protruding, with gaps between the teeth; the lower incisors are crowded and uneven, with a large front-to-back distance between the upper and lower incisors. It is not easy to bite off food when chewing, and the upper lip will be pushed outward and become thicker by the protruding upper teeth, making it difficult to close it with the lower lip, forming a "teeth-exposed, lips-open" face, which affects both the function of the teeth and the beauty.

After reading the above, I believe you already know the dangers of children sucking their lips! Parents should not take their children's every move lightly. If they find that their children have the habit of biting their lips, they should correct it in time and should not allow it to continue. If there are more children, you can help them correct their behavior through guidance. If the children are younger, parents will need help!

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