DS has been a finger sucker for years. To start with it was , or seemed to be, constant but now (he is nearly 8) it is just at bedtime. He puts his ring finger and middle finger (although sometimes it's middle finger and index finger) in his mouth so that the nails are facing downwards and the palm of his hand is facing upwards.
Recently he has had a few sore patches under his bottom lip and while trying to clear them up i have noticed that this area is often damp and it would seem to be that his top lip comes out much further than his bottom lip so the dampness is occuring because his bottom lip is pretty much inside his mouth! Does that make sense? I'm assuming that his finger sucking habit has caused the to half of his mouth/jaw to protrude further forward and so no longer meets with the bottom.
HE has some of his adult teeth through but only about 6/7 I think. Should I be concerned about this at his age?
TIA