Muscles In Your Child’s Chin
Are the muscles in your child’s chin being used in order to bring the lips together?
- Ask your child to bring the lips together.
- Place your finger gently on the chin.
- If you feel the chin hard under your finger the chin muscles are being used.
- These muscles only work when your child thinks about it.
- If these muscles are being used your child will have the lips apart all the time

Muscles in the chin being used to bring the lips lightly together.