Protecting All Children's Teeth (PACT): Oral Habits
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Damaging Oral Habits
Oral habits, if persist beyond certain developmental age, can pose great harm to the developing teeth, occlusion, and surrounding oral tissues. In the formative years, almost all children engage in some non-nutritive sucking habits. Clinicians, by proper differential diagnosis and thorough understanding of natural growth and developmental processes, should take a decision for intervening. This ...
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عنوان ژورنال: MedEdPORTAL
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2374-8265
DOI: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.9674