Every dentist is frequently confronted with the problem of digital sucking in children. Yet any information he can give questioning parents relies largely on opinions, observations, or argumentation, because very little scientific evidence is found in the literature. In 1958, Cook1 analyzed intraoral pressures involved during thumbor finger-sucking in a selected sample of 25 children. He found ...

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 ...

INTRODUCTION Non-nutritive sucking habits can cause occlusal alterations, including anterior open bite. However, not all patients develop this malocclusion. Therefore, the emergence of AOB does not depend on deleterious habits, only. OBJECTIVE Investigate a potential association between non-nutritive sucking habits (NNSHs), anterior open bite (AOB) and facial morphology (FM). METHODS 176 ch...

BACKGROUND The evidence for culture in non-human animals has been growing incrementally over the past two decades. However, the ability for cumulative cultural evolution, with successive generations building on earlier achievements, in non-human animals remains debated. Faithful social learning of incremental improvements in technique is considered to be a defining feature of human culture, dif...

BACKGROUND During the time when preterm infants' oral feeding skills are developing they often experience physiological instability and need assistance from caregivers to maintain adequate oxygenation. Assisting infants to maintain optimal oxygenation during oral feeding requires an understanding of how they express and aim to self-regulate their oxygen status. AIM The purpose of this study w...

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is a plantation commodity that plays an important role in Indonesia’s economic activities and potential foreign exchange earner. One of the biggest obstacles growing Indonesia attack cocoa pod-sucking pests (Helopeltis theivora Waterhouse). The aim this study to obtain effective concentration betel nut control fruit-sucking Waterhouse) plants laboratory. research was ...

Objective: To evaluate the effect of sweet taste stimulation in augmenting the reported growth-enhancing effects of nonnutritive sucking in preterm infants who are gavage-fed. Design: Random assignment of preterm infants to receive stimulation by one of three methods during each feeding until totally orally fed. Setting: Hospital intensive-care and infant transitional units. Patients: Eligibili...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of malocclusion and to examine the effects of breastfeeding and non-nutritive sucking habits on dentition in six-year-old children. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out nested into a birth cohort conducted in Pelotas, Southern Brazil, in 1999. A sample of 359 children was dentally examined and their mothers interviewed. Anterior open bite and po...