Monday 11 July 2011

Shenshe habits and Malocclusion

Commonly used in the dentition of children licking tongue loose teeth, teeth and root sprouting, or the beginning of the permanent teeth, resulting in a tongue or licking dental habits. By the sucking means and the mouth breathing caused by opening and closing of such habits, the easy secondary Chung tongue habits.

In addition, chronic tonsillitis, chronic pharyngitis and other diseases of children, for they breathe and often the tongue stretched forward, in order to promote the functional activity of the tongue, causing Shenshe habits.

Habits of different Shenshe caused malocclusion are not identical. If the often tongue protrudes between the upper and lower front teeth, so that permanent teeth Dental Reviews can not be sprouting to the normal position to form a partial opening and closing.

Since both sides of the tongue between the thick thin application, thus opening and closing of spindle-shaped, both sides of the posterior occlusion may be normal. If Shenshe, the tongue placed on the upper and lower front teeth before the lower jaw forward and then shift, then the opening and closing of the front teeth causing deformity and mandibular prognathism deformity.

Dentition period, if the children used the tongue to lick the tongue or lower front teeth loose teeth, the teeth licking habit forming, increasing the tongue force on the lower front teeth, prompting lower lip to the anterior tilt, fan-shaped teeth appear gap, and even the formation of anti-co. If the tongue while licking up and down the front teeth, can form a bimaxillary protrusion.

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