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And yet, we’re ill-equipped at diagnosing why children might mouth-breathe. In my own case, this year I finally discovered a life-long moderate tounge-tie that prevented me from resting my tongue on the roof of my mouth. This led to a tongue thurst that resulted in a prominent mouth and a maxilla that was down and back relative to where it would otherwise rest given tongue pressure - I presented with a mild version o…
If your baby has trouble breast-feeding, definitely ask nurses and pediatricians repeatedly about tongue-tie. A posterior tongue tie is particularly easy to miss in a kid (and there are still some docs who say it's not possible, or something). Not only can you potentially avoid all the problems the parent poster here mentions, but the kid and mom (if trying to breastfeed) can be saved a lot of short-term grief if suc…
A tendency to mouth-breathe and ear infections are both symptoms in youth.