If tongue is a muscle, how can we stick it out?
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The tongue is the large bundle of muscles on the floor of the mouth that manipulates food for chewing and swallowing. It is one of the organs of taste. Much of the surface of the tongue is covered in taste buds. The tongue assists in forming the sounds of speech, and also plays a major role in sexuality, such as in the french kiss and oral sex.\n\nThe word tongue can be used as a synonym for language, e.g., as in the phrase mother tongue.\n\nIt is also examined and observed diagnostically in traditional Chinese medicine.\n\nThe tongue is made mainly of skeletal muscle and attached to the hyoid bone, mandible and the styloid processes of the temporal bone.\n\nThe muscles that attach the tongue are the extrinsic muscles of the tongue. Inside the tongue, there are four pairs of intrinsic muscles that can alter the shape of the tongue for talking and swallowing. Since it contains no supporting skeletal structures for the muscles, the tongue is an example of a muscular hydrostat, like an octopus arm.\n\nA muscular hydrostat is a biological structure, found in animals. It is used to manipulate items (including food), or to move its host about, and is made mainly of muscles, with no skeletal support. It performs its hydraulic movement without fluid in a separate compartment, as in a hydrostatic skeleton. The principle behind the hydrostatic skeleton is that water is effectively incompressible at physiological pressures. Therefore, a fiber-wound chamber full of water will act as a constant-volume system. What makes the muscular hydrostat special is that it relies on the same principle, but there is no water-filled cavity. Instead, the bulk of the organ is made up of muscle, which also has constant volume. Therefore, instead of a cylinder wrapped with muscle and connective tissue that changes its shape, a muscular hydrostat is a cylinder made of muscle.\n\nMuscular hydrostat is a term coined by Dr. William M. Kier in 1982 to characterize the arms of octopuses and the arms and tentacles of squid. In a paper published in 1985, he showed that other organs, such as mammalian and reptile tongues and elephant trunks, fit in the category as well.\n\n:P
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stick your tongue on it and see...........
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r we talkin about tongue or penis?
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I'm sorry to hear your son is having trouble speaking properly. But don't worry! There is an organisation called Myoresearch Co. that manufacture a variety of appliances that will treat your son's tongue thrust. The site for this organisation is: http://www.myoresearch.com\nIf you go to it and look up the appliance T4K or T4A, depending on the age of your son. If your son is a teenager and has all of his permanent teeth, then take a look at the appliance T4A. You can also contact the organisation if you want to ask them further questions and also ask them for ordering details! If your son is willing to comply with it, the appliance will work. It looks just like a mouth guard and he will only need to wear it when he goes to bed and for 1 hour during the day. The appliance is designed to retrain the tongue and correct myofunctional habits that braces alone cannot resolve.\n\nI hope this helps :)
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The human tongue.  See the section "Face Muscles" in the site below.
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Rinse with warm, salty water several times a day.  This will help keep salt-hating bacteria on the run.\n\nOn another note, keep in mind that your body renews its outer layers of skin, etc. approximately every 7 days.  Your tongue will be feeling much better this time next week.\n\nBest of everything!
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Take a rubber band, wind it up real good with a toothbrush in the middle and let it go on your tongue as a tounge cleaner.
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Good tongue action, but not the stabbing tongue. Suck on the bottom lip a little bit, and kiss the neck the ear and then move back to the lips. Do not suficate your partner.
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Vocal cords and tongue
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Yes, they will stop hurting.  Our tongues actually "fill in" and conform to the space they have over time.  Your tongue WILL adapt to it's new environment, you will start speaking better, and it will stop hurting.  For now, there is a special orthodontic wax you can use on the "hot-spots" where your tongue is particularly sore or cut even.  Call the dentist offic to find out about it.  Especially important to keep teeth/braces very clean since when you put the wax on, you are also trapping in any food particles or plaque, which will accelerate decay/cavities.
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Hey I was thinking that it sounded more like a penis. Is it a penis? I've never squirmed while brushing my teeth. My toothbrush doesn't really hang loosely either.
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Taste.. That wouldn't be cool really - try poking a piece of brocolli up your nose to decide whether it tastes nice, hmmm..\nYour tongue would smell things, now that is weird, people would be wandering around with their tongues out - freaky!
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there's a small book out called taming the tongue...look it up and buy it...also read scripture on the tongue...what or who are you benefiting by speaking against people...love them and help them with there awkward ways or looks...we all do it and it's a hard thing to get out of sometimes because we all talk about things..but try not to involve yourself with idle talk..don't say anything when others start in that conversation..and it's hard because that's what you are used to but with time you'll begin to gain control over it...you need a different perspective on what you are doing..understanding the harm in it may help you overcome this obstacle.
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push the bottom of your jaw out and up. at the same time push your tongue toward your upper teeth and roll it back towards the back roof of your mouth hold for ten seconds. If you do this exercise for two weeks you will notice a huge difference in the appearance of your neck/chin area.
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try this.....\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue
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1. Touch the roof of your mouth with your tongue, right where the roof curves up behind your teeth.\n2. Leave it arched in that direction, but take it off of the roof. (So it isnt touching)\n3. Then strongly exhale through your mouth.\n\nKeep practicing!
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Where your heart tell you they should be. But if that fails, hands on head and neck, or neck and cheek. Head tilted to one side to get better access and make your tongue dance with your partners tongue.