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Speech Pathologist
What you are describing sounds like your tongue has adopted an habitual fronted tongue posture. It is most likely that tongue fronting occurs while the tongue is at rest and also during functon: swallowing chewing and possibly speech. Tongue fronting can give the feel or look of a large tongue because the tongue is more visible. The impression of a large tongue can also occur if your upper jaw is narrow. True large tongue is called macroglossia and is rare.Tongue fronting is an orofacial habit that can be changed through muscle retraining programs designed by an experienced speech pathologist/orofacial myologist.
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Physiotherapist
If you want to start changing the appearance of your tongue you can do a few simple things straight away.Move your tongue off your teeth and say the letter L, quickly and repeatedly, then let the tip of the tongue remain on this L spot. Whenever you think of it move your tongue to this spot.
Paint your tongue with peanut butter, nutella or whatever… suck the tongue up hard against your palate. Imagining this works just as well.
These exercises improve the tone of the middle tongue muscle fibres and make it appear much smaller.
Easy to do, nothing to lose!
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