What Are Malocclusions?
Almost all normal children have the habit of sucking their fingers. They can be regarded as normal physiological activities before the age of 2 to 3 years, and usually disappear on their own at the age of 4 to 6 years. , Bad front teeth occlusion and so on.
- Western Medicine Name
- Bad oral habits
- Affiliated Department
- Department of Physiology-Stomatology
- The main symptoms
- Suck
- Multiple groups
- child
- Contagious
- Non-contagious
| Zhou Yanheng | (Chief physician) | Department of Orthodontics, Peking University Stomatological Hospital |
| Ding Peng | (Deputy Chief Physician) | Department of Orthodontics, Peking University Stomatological Hospital |
| Liu Weitao | (Attending physician) | Department of Orthodontics, Peking University Stomatological Hospital |
- Habit refers to repeating the same action consciously or unconsciously within a certain interval and continuing. The main bad oral habits include finger sucking habits, lip habits, tongue habits, side chewing habits, biting habits and sleeping habits. According to relevant data, children's bad oral habits are one of the main causes of malformations, accounting for about a quarter of the various causes.
Bad mouth habits
- Almost all normal children have the habit of sucking their fingers. They can be regarded as normal physiological activities before the age of 2 to 3 years, and usually disappear on their own at the age of 4 to 6 years. , Bad front teeth occlusion and so on.
Bad mouth habits tongue habits
- Because of tooth replacement or dental caries, the tongue tip is often used to lick parodynia; some children have their tongues stretched forward due to tonsil hypertrophy and other reasons to make the airway open, and the habit of spitting tongue or licking teeth will be formed for a long time. It may cause opening and closing, recombination, and gaps in the lower front teeth. If not treated early, it may even cause bone deformity.
Bad oral habits lip habits
- It usually occurs between the ages of 6 and 15 years old, often because children have bad moods, lip biting movements occur, and lip habits develop over time. Girls are more common. It may cause the upper and lower front teeth to tilt toward the lips or tongue, and may even cause bony deformities such as mandibular retraction or inversion.
Bad oral habits lateral chewing habits
- Often due to severe caries on one side of the posterior teeth or premature loss of permanent teeth, the side cannot bite, cannot chew normally, and can only chew food with the healthy side. Over time, a lateral chewing habit is formed. It may cause asymmetry in the development of the left and right sides of the face, and the lower midline and even the jaw will be skewed to one side.
Bad oral habits biting habits
- It is common to bite pencils and nails. You can also see bites of various stationery and clothes. The bite is fixed in a certain part of the dental arch, often forming small opening and closing deformities.
Bad oral habits sleep habits
- When children sleep, they often use their hands, elbows, or fists to rest under one side of their faces, and sometimes hold their cheeks on one side to read or think about problems, which may cause obstacles to the normal development of the maxillofacial bones and facial symmetry.
Treatment of bad oral habits
- If the child has developed some bad oral habits, he should go to the clinic as soon as possible, analyze the cause of the disease, understand the cause of the formation, and provide guidance and removal in a timely manner to prevent the occurrence of deformities, block the further development of mild deformities and correct them. An occlusal deformity has occurred. [1]