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Bad habits in children and their impact on oral health and development of teeth
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MARHAMAH , FAJRIANI, EKA ERWANSYAH, NURHAYATI NATSIR, NURLINDA HAMRUN, ASDAR GANI, AUTIKA FIRLIE IRWAN, HARUN ACHMAD
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Background: Bad oral habits are extrinsic factors that can affect hard tissue (teeth, alveolar bone), tooth supporting tissue (gums, periodontal ligaments), and other oral mucosa (tongue, lips, cheeks, palate, etc.). Bad habits affect dentofacial functions such as the process of chewing, speaking, tooth occlusion, and the structure of the tooth supporting tissue as well as aesthetics during the teething period. Purpose: To see the overview of bad habits in children that have an impact on oral health and to explain the kinds of bad habits that can affect the growth of teeth. Discussion: Various kinds of bad habits in children that affect the development of teeth in children include thumb or finger sucking, inserting foreign objects into the oral cavity (biting pencils, pens and nail biting), tongue thrusting, mouth breathing, and lip sucking or lip biting. Conclusion: An overview of bad habits in children that have an impact on oral health is thumb sucking and mouth breathing which can cause malocclusion in the child. Malocclusion is formed due to the interaction of various factors, namely internal and external.
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Bad habits in children, malocclusion, growth and development of tooth.
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.172
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