Sucking is an innate physiological demand of babies, and this demand usually gradually weakens after the baby is 6 months old. However, there are still many babies who will continue to suck their thumbs after 6 months as a way to comfort themselves. If the baby soothes himself by sucking his thumb when he feels hungry, afraid, fidgety, quiet, sleepy or bored, it will probably become a habit.

Many parents haven't realized that excessive thumb sucking may affect their children's tooth development.

You can imitate the action of sucking your thumb, and you can feel that the pulp of your fingers pushes the maxillary teeth outward, while the mandibular teeth are pushed inward. Under the long-term action, the maxillary teeth will protrude, the mandibular teeth will turn inward, and finally buck teeth will be formed.

You can also bite your lower lip or upper lip and feel the power on your teeth. Many little girls think that biting your lips is cute. Under the long-term effect, they will gradually develop bad habits. At this time, if you don't correct it, you will regret it when you grow up. The mouth of an adult can't sprout as much as that of a teenager. At this time, you can't sprout with a pout.

There is also the expression of tongue-spitting, which is quaint and strange. Occasionally, it is harmless once or twice, but long-term tongue-spitting, double jaw protrusion and opening and closing are waiting for you. It is cute to spit tongue with high value, and it may make people feel uncomfortable to spit tongue with low value.

It turns out that these small moves may have such serious consequences.

Children will have some bad habits more or less. The maxillofacial region of developing children is like a hard plasticine, which will be deformed by long-term lasting force, which is also the theoretical basis for the influence of bad habits on maxillofacial development.

Small coup to solve children's thumb sucking

Applying bitter medicine on fingers, such as bitter gourd juice, is healthy and harmless, but it can prevent children from thumb sucking.

Another common cause of buck teeth is bad oral habits, such as biting the lower lip, oral breathing, keeping the baby's swallowing style, sucking the thumb, covering the lower lip and so on.

one of the reasons for buckteeth is the congenital absence of the lower anterior teeth, and one or two teeth are usually missing in the lower jaw, resulting in an asymmetric mismatch in the number of teeth between the upper and lower jaws. Another is caused by insufficient function of the lateral pterygoid muscle.

Buckteeth can be divided into three types. The first type is maxillary protrusion, and the mandibular development is normal. Most of them should be solved by tooth extraction correction, probably after the replacement of baby teeth at the age of 12~15. The second type is normal maxillary development and insufficient mandibular retraction development. In this case, early intervention should be carried out to stimulate the growth and development of mandible during deciduous teeth or tooth replacement, about 5-1 years old. The third case is overgrowth of maxilla and underdevelopment of mandible. In this case, a professional orthodontist should judge the best time for correction.