1Postgraduate Student, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Sciences, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
2Senior Professor, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Sciences, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
3Professor and Head, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Sciences, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
4Assistant Professor, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Sciences, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
5Reader, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Sciences, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
*Correspondence Dr. Sindhuri Gairuboyina. Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Sciences, MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru-560 054, Karnataka, India. Mobile: +91-9916771431. Email: sindhugairu@gmail.com
Online published on 18 January, 2019.
Digit sucking habit, a form of non-nutritive sucking, is a repetitive behavior that serves no perceivable social function, but effects the occlusion if persists for a longer period. Digit sucking not only receives attention from health professionals but often is an area that greatly concerns the parents and family of a child who practice this habit. It is, therefore, most important for the dentist who cares for children to understand this habit well to be able to help the parents and the child relate rationally to it and to manage the child's dental situation.
Digit sucking, malocclusion, non-nutritive sucking habits
