Habitual biting of oral mucosa: A conservative treatment approach

Chronic biting of oral mucosa is an innocuous self inflicted injury, commonly seen in children suffering from developmental and psychological problems and has rarely been reported in normal unaffected individuals. The management strategies vary from counseling, prescription of sedatives to different...

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Autores principales: Bhatia, Sarabjot Kaur, Goyal, Ashima, Kapur, Aditi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3793567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24124312
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-237X.118357
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description Chronic biting of oral mucosa is an innocuous self inflicted injury, commonly seen in children suffering from developmental and psychological problems and has rarely been reported in normal unaffected individuals. The management strategies vary from counseling, prescription of sedatives to different prosthetic shields. The paper highlights the efficacy of a simple approach using soft mouth guard in the management of self inflicted lesions due to habitual biting of oral mucosa in two normal healthy children.
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spelling pubmed-37935672013-10-11 Habitual biting of oral mucosa: A conservative treatment approach Bhatia, Sarabjot Kaur Goyal, Ashima Kapur, Aditi Contemp Clin Dent Case Report Chronic biting of oral mucosa is an innocuous self inflicted injury, commonly seen in children suffering from developmental and psychological problems and has rarely been reported in normal unaffected individuals. The management strategies vary from counseling, prescription of sedatives to different prosthetic shields. The paper highlights the efficacy of a simple approach using soft mouth guard in the management of self inflicted lesions due to habitual biting of oral mucosa in two normal healthy children. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3793567/ /pubmed/24124312 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-237X.118357 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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Bhatia, Sarabjot Kaur
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Habitual biting of oral mucosa: A conservative treatment approach
title Habitual biting of oral mucosa: A conservative treatment approach
title_full Habitual biting of oral mucosa: A conservative treatment approach
title_fullStr Habitual biting of oral mucosa: A conservative treatment approach
title_full_unstemmed Habitual biting of oral mucosa: A conservative treatment approach
title_short Habitual biting of oral mucosa: A conservative treatment approach
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3793567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24124312
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-237X.118357
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