Oral habits , thumb sucking , tongue thrust , nail bite , habits in orthodontics , mouth breathing , causes of this habits , explaining

2. Oral habits is NOT Disease it’s Condition

3. Oral Habits
• Oral Habits in infancy and early childhood considered
normal.
• Form 3 – 4 years and above may become symptoms and
its effect the development of the maxillofacial complex

4. Oral habits depends on
• 1. intensity : amount of force applied on the tooth
• 2. frequently : number of times that the habits present in a day
• 3. duration : the amount of time spent in the habits

5. • The child who sucking high intensity in low duration have
less effect on the teeth than the child that use low force
with long duration ( 6 hr. ) per day
•Duration is more effect than intensity
Oral Habits

6. Thumb sucking habits
Thumb sucking habits define as placement of the thumb
into the mouth
Not only the thump it can be any finger
The thumb habits is the majority of the oral habits

7. Anterior open bite

8. Proclination of the upper
Retroclination of the lower

9. Posterior crossbite

11. • How to STOP this habits ???
• First ask the patient to leave it and talk with the parents
• Second use of orthodontics appliance
• 1. Fixed appliance cemented to the teeth
• 2. Removable appliance can be removal
Thumb sucking habits

12. Fixed appliance
Bluegrass appliance

13. Fixed appliance

14. Removal appliance
Modified Hawley

15. Pacifier Habits
Pacifier habits is the same
as the thumb sucking
With the same effect on
the dental and
development of the arch
it can be develop
medial diastema

16. Pacifier Habits
Treatment of the this habit
can be done without
orthodontics appliance
By take it out from him or
can be make bad test
So he will leave it

17. Lip Habits
• Lip habits Include lip bite and lip sucking
The must commonly lip habits is sucking the lip behind the
upper incisors

20. Lip bumper

21. Nail Bite
• Rarely seen in the patient before 3 – 6 years
• Most effect is removal of the occlusal surface of the tooth which will lead to
over eruption of the opposite tooth
• May lead to anterior openbite or tooth crossbite

22. Tongue Thrust Habits (TTH)
• Tongue Thrust Habits (TTH) : condition in which the tongue make contact
with anterior teeth during swallowing to meet the lower lip

23. Tongue Thrust Habits (TTH)
• all infants exhibit a swallowing pattern involving tongue protrusion, but by
six months of age most lose this reflex allowing for the ingestion of solid
foods
• Tongue thrust is normal in infants until approximately the age of six months
• The most cause of it large tongue
• It will cause Anterior openbite

24. Oral Screen

25. Mouth Breathing
• Mouth Breathing : respiration from the mouth instead of the nose
• The most cause of it that
• 1. nasal obstruction
• 2. lip incompetence

27. Oral screen with holes
for breathing
Oral screen with lingual crib