An unusual type of sucking habit in a patient with cleft lip and palate
Digit sucking, a form of non-nutritive sucking, is a habit of concern to specialist in various fields such as psychiatrist, psychologist, pediatricians, pediatric dentists, orthodontist, speech pathologist and plastic surgeon. The habits have harmful unbalanced pressures to be born by the immature h...
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Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2009-01-01
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Series: | Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry |
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Online Access: | http://www.jisppd.com/article.asp?issn=0970-4388;year=2009;volume=27;issue=4;spage=260;epage=262;aulast=Satyaprasad |