Hi, I hope you can help clarify a few things for me. I have an 18 yr old who has a short philtrum (12mm). Her upper lip sits on her bottom teeth and lips remain open all the time, even while eating most of the time. She is not able to do the Balloon Lip exercise very well. Is that exercise supposed to be done by isolating the air to the upper lip or is it alright for the air to be filling the cheeks simultaneously?

Q: I’m writing with a question regarding a 22-year-old client recently evaluated; her mother sent her to me with concerns about a frontal lisp due to a “tongue thrust.”  According to mom, the young woman had had a “tongue thrust” and frontal lisp that went away around age 7 when her tonsils and adenoids were