Corresponding Author: Abdolreza Jamilian Department of Orthodontics, Dental Branch, Craniomaxillofacial Research Center, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran E-mail: [email protected] Abstract: In addition to heredity, oral habits are considered important factors in the etiology of malocclusion. This study was taken to assess the relationship between Malocclusion and Oral Habits. The sample co...

Introduction: Hand and wrist stability are critical for optimal upper extremity function. Instability occurs when injury or a pathological condition alters balance, typically in the basketball players and handball players. Injury also can occur whenever the ligaments are subjected to tensile forces that exceed their physiological capacities. For example, thumb is stable in ext...

Background Non-nutritive sucking is part of the initial development process in preterm infants that may speed up the transition from the tube to oral feeding. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of non-nutritive sucking on mother's finger on feeding tolerance and attainment of independent oral feeding in preterm infants. Materials and Methods This single blind clinical trial was co...

Prolonged duration of finger- and pacifier-sucking may be a risk factor for maldevelopment of orofacial structures and dental occlusion. This study assessed the prevalence of nutritive and non-nutritive sucking habits and their association with some contributing factors among 7-year-old girls in Mashhad, Islamic Republic of Iran. Based on a questionnaire to the parents of 436 schoolgirls, the r...

AIM Finger-sucking in early childhood can induce morphologic changes in the oropharynx and upper airways, which could arise even in children without reported oral breathing. The aim of this study was to compare cephalometric findings in children with and without finger sucking habit with respect to oral breathing. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty-six children aged 4 to 12 years (28 with diagnosis ...

The persistence of thumb sucking might also be harmful as it associated with the development complications seen on paronychia and nail deformities in mouth level malocclusions. In this review, we have looked up studies literature to identify effect malocclusion. Thumb children usually occurs a primitive reflex that appears early childhood no apparent causative factors. Children develop habit be...

This article was accepted fur publication September 26, 1991. Behavioral research has indicated that thumbsucking often covaries with hair pulling and that the elimination of thumb-sucking can result in the elimination of the hair pulling with which it was associated (e.g., Frlman & Hove, 1987; Knell & Moore, 1988). Treatments for persistent thumb-sucking, however, have shown minimal or transie...

AIM Currently and with increasing frequency, treatments with Invisalign orthodontic devices are aimed also to adolescent patients: this evolution involves the management of some atypical characteristics, and among them also thumb- sucking. CASE REPORT A 13-year-old adolescent girl with protracted thumb sucking and dentoalveolar open bite is presented. Infantile neuropsychiatric assessment w...