With the improvement of people’s economic level and quality of life, more and more people begin to pay attention to teeth and beautiful face.

However, in the growth and development of children, many insignificant small habits will have a very important impact on the development of children’s maxillofacial region.

In 2000, the national epidemiological survey of malocclusion showed that the prevalence rate of malocclusion was as high as 52%!

So, what bad habits of children can affect the development of teeth and even mouth?

Before the answer, let’s first understand with parents and friends, what is bad oral habits?

What are bad oral habits?

In a certain period of time consciously or unconsciously do the same action repeatedly, and continue, this is bad oral habits.

Common bad oral habits include:

· Lip biting habit

· Finger sucking habits

· Tongue habit

· Breathe with your mouth open

· One-sided chewing

Lip biting habit

Lip biting habits mainly include biting the lower lip and biting the upper lip.

This habit, generally common among girls, many children at first because of the occasional emotional problem, but if it exists for a long time, it needs to be corrected by parents in time.

Because of biting the lower lip, it is easy to cause the child’s front teeth to shift outwards and protrude, forming “buck teeth”, at the same time, there will be a gap, and hinder the development of the lower front teeth, and the inward force of the lower front teeth makes the lower front teeth crowded.

The bite of the upper lip, it may lead to the formation of the child’s front teeth (occlusion), jaw protrusion and other abnormalities, that is, the daily said “ground bag day”.

Finger-sucking habit

Finger sucking is one of the neurological reflexes in early childhood.

The child’s finger sucking habit before the age of 2-3 is a normal physiological activity, in general, the child will gradually decrease and disappear at the age of 4-6.

If the child can not change this habit after this, and has a certain intensity, then it may affect the development of the child’s mouth.

Possible hazards of finger sucking in children:

· Prevent normal eruption of upper and lower anterior teeth;

· Make the front teeth lose normal occlusion, forming open jaw deformity;

· Resulting in stenosis of the upper dental arch, crowded anterior protrusion of the upper anterior teeth and other deformities.

Tongue habit

Tongue habits mainly include licking teeth and spitting out the tongue.

Many children like to lick loose teeth or new teeth with their tongue when they change teeth.

This action once in a while will not have much impact, but if maintained for a long time not

Good habits may affect the growth direction of new teeth!

And often spit out the tongue, put the tongue between the upper and lower teeth, not only the permanent teeth are difficult to fully erupt, but also affect the normal bite of the upper and lower teeth. ,

Here, it is necessary to remind parents that chronic pharyngitis, chronic tonsillitis and other diseases may also cause children to have poor tongue extension habits, so when the relevant symptoms are found, parents should take their children to the relevant regular hospital in time!

Open mouth breathing

Nasal breathing is a normal breathing pattern, the air flow from the upper respiratory tract through the nasal cavity, nasopharyngeal cavity and pharyngeal cavity into the lungs, this process does not need to participate in the mouth.

Oral breathing means that the air flow through the mouth, oropharyngeal cavity, laryngeal cavity and other lower respiratory tract into the lungs, so you can see that the mouth of people breathing through the mouth is open.

The effects of oral breathing include narrow dental arch, high arch of palate cap, sunken nose root, maxillary protrusion, crowded upper dentition, mandibular protrusion or retraction, lip thickening, upper lip curl, etc., which is called “appearance level killer”!

In addition, patients may also have sleep snoring, nasal congestion, runny nose, repeated upper respiratory tract infection, inconcentration in class and hyperactivity.

hemimastication

When chewing sideways, the jaw is often tilted to one side, resulting in the deflection of the jaw, and the midline will also be skewed.

The side that is often used, that is, the physiological function of the chewing side is normal, then the structural development of the side is better, and the other side is rarely used, and the development is relatively poor, and it is more likely to appear tartar, dental stones and so on.

Partial chewing will also affect the bite relationship on both sides, resulting in asymmetrical development of the left and right sides of the face, and the appearance of “size face”!

How to correct bad oral habits?

In principle, parents should first judge the causes of bad oral habits, and help children get rid of bad habits through correct guidance, comfortable care, and psychological counseling.

However, if a child is not able to give up bad habits after the age of six, professional help should be sought.

1. Correct bad oral habits

Parents first need to help their children correct bad habits such as finger sucking, lip biting, tongue sticking out, pen biting, side chewing and poor sleeping position.

2. Seek medical attention in time

When parents cannot correct their children’s bad habits, they need to see a doctor in time and correct bad oral habits with the help of simple orthotics.

3. Pay attention to children’s mental health

Many children began to bite lips, finger sucking and other behaviors, are emotional trouble, so if parents can pay more attention to children’s mental health, early detection of the cause of the disease, you can help children better abandon bad habits.