Biting your lip or tongue

Introduction More common in children, biting lips or tongue is a bad habit. Biting the lip will not only deform the lip and teeth, affecting the appearance, but also affect the chewing of the teeth due to the deformation of the upper and lower jaws. Biting the tongue, biting the lips or biting the inside of the cheek is a chronic irritation that can easily cause ulcers, leukoplakia, and tongue pain.

Cause

The cause of biting the lips or tongue:

The direct origin of biting the lips should be said to be from the sucking instinct of the baby; when the teeth grow out, because the gums are uncomfortable or itchy, it is relieved by biting the lips; and the need for attachment to the loved one and contact with the skin is not satisfied, and Seeking psychological comfort; when parents can't get children to get parent-child attachment, skin and body contact, sucking lips, biting lips, biting hands, etc., stabilize the mood to a certain extent, gain psychological satisfaction and pleasure. It has gained security and happiness, thus making up for the lack of parental care and care. Over time, it has developed a bad habit.

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The diagnosis of biting the lips or tongue:

Biting the lips can cause the lips to crack and violent, and may also cause bacterial infection; often biting the upper lip may cause the anterior teeth to reciprocate and the lower jaw to protrude forward. Bite your lower lip will cause the upper front teeth to protrude, the lower jaw to retract, and the upper lip will become thick and short, open and the teeth exposed. It not only deforms the lips and teeth, affects the appearance, but also affects the chewing effect of the teeth due to the deformation of the upper and lower jaws; biting the tongue, biting the lips or biting the inside of the cheeks is a chronic irritation, which can easily cause ulcers, leukoplakia, and tongue pain. And other types of oral mucosal disorders; biting the lips also reveals their immature side, others will subjectively believe that it is difficult to give the work to such a person.

Differential diagnosis

Symptoms that confuse lips or tongue:

Unconsciously clenching the teeth during the day: it is a type of molars. The so-called bruxism refers to those who have habitual molars or white sputum during sleep, and have a habit of grinding their teeth. It is a long-term vicious circle. disease. Often, when the concentration is concentrated during the day, the teeth are not consciously bitten, but there is no phenomenon of upper and lower teeth.

Tongue bite: Neonatal seizures are prone to tongue bites, suffocation, cerebral hypoxia and other complications. Neonatal seizures are a symptom of a transient disorder of central nervous system function caused by a variety of causes (production injury, hypoxia, metabolic abnormalities, infections, and congenital malformations, etc.), and some neurons in the brain tissue suddenly occur to varying degrees. Abnormal discharge leads to involuntary contraction of the whole body or local muscles. It is common that focalities may be illegible. Migratory clonic limb twitching, alternating hemifacial seizures or primary cerebral subcortical convulsions (respiratory arrest, chewing exercise, persistent episodes of oblique tension in the eye) are common. There are very few episodes of epilepsy.

Closed jaw: This disease is an acute infection caused by tetanus, which is characterized by intermittent muscle tonic spasm and masseter muscle spasm, which is called "dental closure". Patients with a history of trauma and muscle stiffness or paralysis should consider this disease. Tetanus may be confused with bacterial or viral meningoencephalitis, but conscious, cerebrospinal fluid and muscle spasm can be prompted for tetanus. Closed jaws must be differentiated from abscesses around the tonsils or posterior pharyngeal and other local causes. Phenothiazines can cause physiological rigidity.

Biting the lips can cause the lips to crack and violent, and may also cause bacterial infection; often biting the upper lip may cause the anterior teeth to reciprocate and the lower jaw to protrude forward. Bite your lower lip will cause the upper front teeth to protrude, the lower jaw to retract, and the upper lip will become thick and short, open and the teeth exposed. It not only deforms the lips and teeth, affects the appearance, but also affects the chewing effect of the teeth due to the deformation of the upper and lower jaws; biting the tongue, biting the lips or biting the inside of the cheeks is a chronic irritation, which can easily cause ulcers, leukoplakia, and tongue pain. And other types of oral mucosal disorders; biting the lips also reveals their immature side, others will subjectively believe that it is difficult to give the work to such a person.

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