• Inability to open mouth widely affects speech and eating habits
  • Inability to speak clearly when talking fast/loud/soft
  •  Clicking jaws
  • Pain in jaws
  •  Protrusion of the lower jaws, inferior prognathism
  • Effects on social situations, kissing, licking ice cream
  • Dental health- a tendency to have inflamed gums, and increased need for periodontal surgery
  •  Tongue tie in the elderly often makes it difficult to keep a denture in place