Factors that influence the proclination or retroclination of the lower incisors in children with prolonged thumb-sucking habits

Swedish Dental Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 37-45

  Afzelius Alm, Anita ^a   Larsson, Erik ^a,b   Löfgren, Claes Göran V ^c   Bishara, Samir E ^d  

^a Orthodontic Clinic   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c KSS   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Malocclusion; Mandibular incisors; Orthodontics; Thumb sucking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISOR; MALE; MOLAR TOOTH; ORTHODONTICS; THUMB; TOOTH OCCLUSION;

ADOLESCENT; CEPHALOMETRY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; DEGLUTITION; FEMALE; FINGERSUCKING; HUMANS; INCISOR; LIP; MALE; MALOCCLUSION; MANDIBLE; MOLAR; THUMB; TONGUE; TONGUE HABITS; TOOTH EXFOLIATION; TOOTH, DECIDUOUS;

EID: 1842734643     PISSN: 03479994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Backlund E. Facial growth, and the significance of oral habits, mouthbreathing and soft tissues for malocclusion. Acta Odont Scand 1963; 21, supplement 36
2. Larsson E. Dummy-and finger-sucking habits with special attention to their significance for facial growth and occlusion. 4. Effect on facial growth and occlusion. Swed Dent J 1972;65:605-34.
3. Larsson E. Breast-feeding, suckling and the sucking urge: their development and their influence on the developing dentition. Editor S. Bishara. Tryckeriet, Regionens Hus, Mariestad, Sweden 1999.
4. Larsson E. Sucking, chewing and feeding habits and the development of crossbite. A longitudinal study of girls from birth to 3 years of age. Angle Orthod. 2001;71:116-9.
5. Moyers R E. Handbooks of orthodontics. Third edition. 1973. Pp 256.
6. Moore M B, McDonald J P. A cephalometric evaluation of patients persisting with digit sucking habit. British J Orthod. 1997;24:17-23.
7. Ogaard B, Larsson E, Lindsten R. The effect of sucking habits, cohort, sex, intercanine archwidths, and breast or bottle feeding on posterior crossbite in Norwegian and Swedish 3-year-old children. Am J Orthod Dentof Orthop. 1994;106:161-6.
8. Proffit W R, Fileds Jr H W. Contemporary orthodontics. Third edition 1999. Pp 134.
9. Subtelny J D, Subtelny J D. Oral habits-studies in form, function and therapy. Angle Orthodontics 1973;43:347-83.
10. Taft L L, Hempstead N Y. A diagnostic study of the dentition, dentofacial pattern and cranial base of prolonged thumb-suckers. Am J Orthod. 1966;52:703-5.