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1. Chewing With Your Mouth Open. An oldie but a goodie. No less an authority than your own mother surely told you to keep your mouth closed while you’re eating, and she told you early and often.
Eliminate mouth breathing and open-mouth posture; Improve nasal breathing patterns; Reinforce and establish a resting posture of the tongue away from the teeth, against the hard palate; Establish appropriate oral, lingual, and facial muscle patterns that promote correct gestures for chewing and eating
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) [5] classifies the condition under "Other Specified Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorder" (300.3) as a body-focused repetitive behavior; the DSM-5 uses the more descriptive terms lip biting and cheek chewing (p. 263) instead of morsicatio buccarum.
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Chewing insects have two mandibles, one on each side of the head. They are typically the largest mouthpart of chewing insects, being used to masticate (cut, shred, tear, crush, chew) food items. They open outwards (to the sides of the head) and come together medially.
The four classical muscles of mastication elevate the mandible (closing the jaw) and move it forward/backward and laterally, facilitating biting and chewing. Other muscles are responsible for opening the jaw, namely the geniohyoid , mylohyoid , and digastric muscles (the lateral pterygoid may play a role).
Indeed, behaviours of mouth to mouth feeding of premasticated food and ritualized mouth to mouth contact for bonding has been observed in anthropoid apes such as gorillas, orangutans and chimpanzees. All of this supports the idea that human behaviours of kissing and feeding of premastication foods, either directly or indirectly from the mouth ...