Background: Preterm infants frequently experience oral feeding difficulties due to undeveloped oral- motor skills and lack of coordination between sucking, swallowing and breathing. Infants’ ability to orally consume all feedings while maintaining physiological stability and weight gain is necessary for their discharge. Aim: The effect of non-nutritive sucking on weight gain in preterm infants....

BACKGROUND The use of non-nutritive sucking materials like pacifiers and fingers poses health challenges to children in resource-limited settings, where hygiene practices and provision of clean water are poor. This study was designed to determine the prevalence of non-nutritive sucking habits and its association with acute diarrhea in children aged 6-23 months in urban communities of Nigeria. ...

BACKGROUND Thumb sucking habits make up the majority of oral habits. While thumb sucking is considered normal during the first two years of life, if it is not controlled and persists beyond the preschool period it may cause deleterious effects on dentofacial structures. Reminder therapy using Bluegrass appliance has been proven successful to intercept thumb sucking habit. CASE REPORT We prese...

Digit sucking is common nonnutritive sucking habit in childhood. However it is unusual to find toe sucking habit in children. We report a case of a seven-year-old child sucking great toe of the left foot. The child was referred by her paediatrician for dental evaluation due to her complaint of recurrent episodes of pyrexia. A dental evaluation was warranted as no particular system contributed t...

Background:Enteral feeding intolerance is a major problem in the preterm neonates. Non-nutritive sucking and abdominal massage are among the most important nutritional interventions in this regard. Aim: This study aimed to compare the effect of non-nutritive sucking and abdominal massage on feeding tolerance in the preterm newborns. Method: This clinical trial was conducted on 52 preterm neonat...

The objective of the present study was to determine the oral motor capacity and the feeding performance of preterm newborn infants when they were permitted to start oral feeding. This was an observational and prospective study conducted on 43 preterm newborns admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of UFSM, RS, Brazil. Exclusion criteria were the presence of head and neck malformations, ge...

Blood sucking flies are vectors of medical and veterinary importance. Within Nay Pyi Taw area, a longitudinal study was conducted to collect blood sucking fly samples between January and December, 2011. A total of 2,717 fly samples including 1,506 samples of blood sucking flies and 1,211 samples of non blood sucking flies were collected throughout a year. Collected blood sucking flies were Stom...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of prolonged sucking habits and mouth breathing on palatal vault morphology in a group of subjects with unilateral functional crossbite [crossbite (CB) group] compared with a group of subjects with normal occlusion [non-crossbite (NCB) group]. A sample of 80 Caucasian subjects (51 CB and 29 NCB; aged 5.3 ± 0.8 years) in the deciduous dentition...

Imidacloprid [ 1-[(6-Chloro-3-Pyridinyl) methyl ]N-nitro -2Imidazolidinimine] is a newly introduced broad spectrum systemic insecticide in the Indian subcontinent by M/s. Bayer India Ltd.. This new chloronicotinyl compound is fairly soluble in water as compared to other non-polar insecticides (Kagabu 1997). It is effective against sucking insects, soil insects, termites and some species of chew...

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