Impact of two non-nutritive sucking patterns on the development of anterior open bite in children of two kindergartens in Baghdad city

Background: Non-nutritive sucking habit (NNSH) is the main environmental causative factor that disturbs normal orofacial development. In spite of the harmful effect of pacifier as a NNSH, mothers aware from the other types of NNSH like thumb sucking far more than pacifier use. Open bite is one of t...

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Main Author: Munad J Al Duliamy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: College of Dentistry/ University of Baghdad 2020-12-01
Series:Journal of Baghdad College of Dentistry
Online Access:https://jbcd.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/jbcd/article/view/2913