A Single Versatile Appliance for Habit Interception and Crossbite Correction

A Single Versatile Appliance for Habit Interception and Crossbite Correction

Digit sucking is a common childhood behavior, which has an adaptive value for children up to the fourth year of life. It is usually associated with oral pleasure and self-comforting behavior. But chronic practice may produce deleterious effect in the form of dental and skeletal deformities. Adjuncti...

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Main Authors: Mohammed Zameer, Syed Nahid Basheer, Arun Reddy, Suresh Kumar Kovvuru
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Dentistry
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/607545
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spelling doaj-a8b23b5bf5104dd9aa781405dbe417092021-07-02T05:31:02ZengHindawi LimitedCase Reports in Dentistry2090-64472090-64552015-01-01201510.1155/2015/607545607545A Single Versatile Appliance for Habit Interception and Crossbite CorrectionMohammed Zameer0Syed Nahid Basheer1Arun Reddy2Suresh Kumar Kovvuru3Department of Pediatric & Preventive Dentistry, Navodaya Dental College and Hospital, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Raichur, Karnataka 584103, IndiaDepartment of Restorative Dental Science, College of Dentistry, Jazan University, Jazan 45142, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Orthodontics, Navodaya Dental College and Hospital, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Raichur, Karnataka 584103, IndiaDepartment of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, KVG Dental College & Hospital, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Sullia, Karnataka 574239, IndiaDigit sucking is a common childhood behavior, which has an adaptive value for children up to the fourth year of life. It is usually associated with oral pleasure and self-comforting behavior. But chronic practice may produce deleterious effect in the form of dental and skeletal deformities. Adjunctive therapy using bluegrass appliance as a permanent reminder and quadhelix appliance as a reminder as well as a slow palatal expander has proven successful in intercepting digit-sucking habit and expanding the arch for crossbite correction. In the present case, a versatile modified quadhelix appliance incorporating a roller was designed to clinically correct the habit and its resulting dentofacial deformities.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/607545
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Arun Reddy
Suresh Kumar Kovvuru
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A Single Versatile Appliance for Habit Interception and Crossbite Correction
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title A Single Versatile Appliance for Habit Interception and Crossbite Correction
title_short A Single Versatile Appliance for Habit Interception and Crossbite Correction
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title_full_unstemmed A Single Versatile Appliance for Habit Interception and Crossbite Correction
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description Digit sucking is a common childhood behavior, which has an adaptive value for children up to the fourth year of life. It is usually associated with oral pleasure and self-comforting behavior. But chronic practice may produce deleterious effect in the form of dental and skeletal deformities. Adjunctive therapy using bluegrass appliance as a permanent reminder and quadhelix appliance as a reminder as well as a slow palatal expander has proven successful in intercepting digit-sucking habit and expanding the arch for crossbite correction. In the present case, a versatile modified quadhelix appliance incorporating a roller was designed to clinically correct the habit and its resulting dentofacial deformities.
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