ABSTRACT
Five patients with deformities of the index finger are presented. We believe all five are due to finger sucking. The deformity usually consists of a combination of rotation, radial deviation in the metacarpal phalangeal joint, and hyperextension in the proximal interphalangeal joint; one of these is more pronounced. In our series the rotational deformity and deviation were the most prominent features. Cause, incidence, and other factors influencing this deformity as well as spontaneous regression and therapy are discussed.
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Fingers/surgery , Fingersucking/complications , Hand Deformities, Acquired/surgery , Adult , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Male , Metacarpus/surgery , OsteotomySubject(s)
Fingersucking , Child , Child, Preschool , Fingersucking/complications , Fingersucking/prevention & control , Humans , InfantSubject(s)
Fingersucking , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Fingersucking/complications , Fingersucking/psychology , Fingersucking/therapy , Humans , Male , Social Class , Stress, PsychologicalABSTRACT
To determine whether there is an association between bottle-feeding and malocclusion, a case control study was conducted by means of a questionnaire sent to the parents of 737 patients aged 10 to 12 years from a large private pediatric dental practice. Questions included method and duration of infant feeding, type of nipple used, pacifier use, sucking habits, history of orthodontic treatment, and parental orthodontic history. Analysis of valid responses (N = 454) showed need for treatment to be associated only with history of parental orthodontic treatment (P less than 0.05). A trend toward association of bottle-feeding with need for orthodontic treatment was found in the increasing need for treatment with increasing exposure to bottle, but was of marginal significance (P = 0.058).
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Bottle Feeding/adverse effects , Malocclusion/etiology , Breast Feeding , Child , Equipment Design , Female , Fingersucking/complications , Humans , Infant Care , Male , Orthodontics, CorrectiveABSTRACT
The relationships between malocclusion and atopic diseases (familial allergy) and other usual predisposing factors were studied clinically and biometrically in a nonselected cohort of 217 7-year-old children. Normal Class I occlusion was more common in children with atopic respiratory symptoms than in nonatopic children. Posterior crossbites were found in children with atopic dermatitis (P less than 0.05), those with frequent infections (P less than 0.05), and in those sucking their fingers or a dummy beyond the age of 4 years (P less than 0.05) more often than in other children. The present results provide further support for the view that atopic hyperreactivity is a predisposing factor for posterior crossbites.
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Hypersensitivity, Immediate/complications , Malocclusion/etiology , Child , Dermatitis, Atopic/complications , Female , Fingersucking/complications , Humans , Male , Malocclusion/diagnosis , Mouth Breathing/complications , Respiratory Hypersensitivity/complications , Respiratory Tract Infections/complications , Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal/complications , Risk FactorsABSTRACT
The pediatrician can assist the dental profession in preventing dental disease and maintaining the oral health of children. Pediatricians are urged to counsel parents in dietary and oral hygiene practices that will prevent dental caries and to refer patients for professional dental care when appropriate. Systemic fluoride supplements should be prescribed when needed but only after a careful review of requirements and daily consumption.
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Pediatrics/standards , Physician's Role , Preventive Dentistry , Role , Adolescent , Child , Child, Preschool , Counseling , Dental Caries/prevention & control , Dental Plaque/therapy , Diet , Fingersucking/complications , Fluorides/therapeutic use , Humans , Infant , Infant Care/methods , Infant, Newborn , Oral Health , Oral Hygiene/methods , Referral and ConsultationABSTRACT
We evaluated the effects of aversive taste treatment of thumb sucking on untreated trichotillomania (habitual hair pulling) in two children who chronically pulled their hair and sucked their thumbs. A combination of withdrawal and nonconcurrent multiple baseline designs showed that, concomitant with the successful treatment of thumb sucking, hair pulling was also eliminated. The results suggest an efficient method for changing behaviors that are difficult to treat directly.
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Fingersucking/therapy , Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder/complications , Trichotillomania/complications , Child, Preschool , Fingersucking/complications , Humans , MaleSubject(s)
Fingersucking/complications , Malocclusion/etiology , Alveolar Process/abnormalities , Child , Child, Preschool , Deglutition Disorders/etiology , Humans , Infant , Malocclusion/diagnostic imaging , Malocclusion/prevention & control , Radiography , Tongue Habits , Tooth Abnormalities/complicationsABSTRACT
To illustrate particular patterns of apical root resorption in primary maxillary central incisors of digital suckers, the radiographs of patients in a private pedodontic practice were evaluated. All cases in this study displayed one of four typical forms of apical root resorption. Radiographic findings appeared in children as young as twenty-five months of age.
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Fingersucking/complications , Incisor , Root Resorption/etiology , Tooth, Deciduous , Child, Preschool , Humans , Incisor/diagnostic imaging , Maxilla , Radiography , Root Resorption/diagnostic imagingSubject(s)
Fingersucking/complications , Tongue Habits , Africa , Child , Child, Preschool , Habits , Humans , Lip , Malocclusion/etiology , Sucking BehaviorABSTRACT
In 1971 a comprehensive health inspection of all 4-year-olds in the County of Skaraborg was carried out. This also included a dental examination, in which the prevalence of cross-bite was related to the child's sucking habit. The aim of the present study was to investigate the development of the transverse relation between the arches in these 4-year-olds up to the age of 16. Among the 4-year-old dummy-suckers, the prevalence of cross-bite was five times as high than among children with no previous sucking-habit. In spite of this fact, it has not been possible in this study to establish a significant correlation between previous dummy-sucking and the development of cross-bite in the permanent dentition.
