An unusual sucking habit in a child

Presence of oral habit in 3–6 year old children is an important finding in the clinical examination. An oral habit is no longer considered as normal for children near the end of this age group. In pre-school children, digit and dummy sucking is a predominant habit, and girls are found to have a high...

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Autores principales: Chowdhary, Nagalakshmi, Gaffur, Hazra, Sandeep, Chowdhary, Ramesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3220147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22114431
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-237X.76394
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description Presence of oral habit in 3–6 year old children is an important finding in the clinical examination. An oral habit is no longer considered as normal for children near the end of this age group. In pre-school children, digit and dummy sucking is a predominant habit, and girls are found to have a higher level of sucking habit then boys do. Here is a case report of a unique sucking habit, which if not stopped, will lead to dental problem in the child.
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spelling pubmed-32201472011-11-23 An unusual sucking habit in a child Chowdhary, Nagalakshmi Gaffur, Hazra Sandeep, Chowdhary, Ramesh Contemp Clin Dent Case Report Presence of oral habit in 3–6 year old children is an important finding in the clinical examination. An oral habit is no longer considered as normal for children near the end of this age group. In pre-school children, digit and dummy sucking is a predominant habit, and girls are found to have a higher level of sucking habit then boys do. Here is a case report of a unique sucking habit, which if not stopped, will lead to dental problem in the child. Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC3220147/ /pubmed/22114431 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-237X.76394 Text en Copyright: © Contemporary Clinical Dentistry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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