THUMB SUCKING

Habits die hard is a common phase .Many oral habits continue to adulthood when not intercepted at appropriate age. Those patients suffer from severe psychological trauma which affecting their normal development mentally and socially. Much attention has been directed toward oral habits such as non-nutritive sucking habits and tongue-thrust as possible causes of unbalanced functional forces on the developing dentition. Unbalanced functional forces are potential etiologic factors in the development of dentoskeletal abnormalities and hence possible etiologic factors in malocclusion.