Habit Breaking Appliance

Children often develop certain habits that usually fade as they grow older. However, if these practices persist after permanent teeth have erupted, they can significantly affect jaw growth patterns and ruin the alignment of teeth. At Alisa Dental Care, a dental clinic in Richmond Road, Bangalore, we specialize in identifying and treating such habits to ensure proper dental and skeletal development. Common habits include thumb sucking, tongue thrusting, and mouth breathing.

Children have a very soft bone in their jaw, so if they catch such habits it can make the soft jaws change its shape according to the force being applied on it.So it’s very important to stop these habit by making the child understand the consequences of continuing such habits. But for some kids they need some appliance to break the habit.,

If your child has a thumb or finger sucking habit that has persisted past the age of five, and you have been unable to tame it, a more permanent solution to thumb sucking is an appliance called a fixed palatal crib or a rake-style appliance.

It’s the natural swallowing movement of tongue, but some kids take it as a habit to repeat this movement which will result in the deformity of the arch.If the pattern doesn’t change, however, it can lead to problems similar to those caused by thumb sucking like problems with tooth alignment and skeletal development.

Normally breathing is through nose, mouth breathing can lead to decrease in saliva and it makes teeth more prone for caries. At time these habits develop due to anatomical deviation. As blocked nose due to recurrent cold or deviated septum can force the child to breath from mouth and thus the habit of mouth breathing develops.