Bad habits

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Bad habits
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• Habit it is an action or condition which by
  repetition had become spontaneous

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Oral bad habits

1. Thumb sucking
2. Mouth breathing
3. Lip biting
4. Tongue thrust

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• It decrease with increase in age
• It is less with bottle feeding than glass feeding
• It increase with increasing no. of siblings
• More frequnt in high socioeconomic status

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What is the effect of habit on occlusion between
the age of 6 mo. -5.5 yr.
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Thumb sucking

• Production of negative or reduced intra oral
  pressure
• The pattern of sucking is different some children
  put the thumb only others put thumb and tongue
  between teeth

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What is the treatment
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Determinant factors of habit on occlusion

• Duration
• Frequency
• Intensity

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Duration

• At which age the child get the habit
• The time spent by the child to do the habit

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Frequency

• How many times the patient put his thumb in his
  mouth per day (day , night, both)

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Intensity

• The force used during the sucking habit

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Treatment of bad habits

• Clinical examination
• Type of malocclusion
• finger

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Types of malocclusions associated with oral habits
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Digit examination

• Clean
• Larger in dimension
• callous

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Dont ask the patient if he sucks his finger or no

• The question should be
• How many times you suck ?

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Timing of treatment

• In deciduous dentition?

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Treatment

• Mouth breather

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