Habit Breaking Appliance For Tongue Thrusting - A Modification.

Autor: Singh, Sohinderjit, Prerna, Dua, Parminder, Jain, Saurabh
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Zdroj: Indian Journal of Dental Sciences; Sep2011, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p10-12, 3p, 5 Black and White Photographs
Abstrakt: Tongue thrust, otherwise known as an infantile or reverse swallow pattern, refers to a swallowing movement where the tongue moves forward to approximate the lower lip. Amongst fixed habit breaking appliances for tongue thrust, crib is the most popular appliance. Invariably after few weeks of fixation of this appliance, due to biting forces in the anterior region the whole appliances sinks superiorly and either impinges on mucosa or gets submerged under it. A modification of the tongue crib has been suggested to overcome this problem [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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