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Digit Sucking Habit and Association with Dental Caries and Oral Hygiene Status of Children Aged 6 Months to 12 Years Resident in Semi-Urban Nigeria. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 OBJECTIVES:Non-nutritive sucking (NNS) is a common behavior in childhood. The association between digit sucking, dental caries and oral health has been studied with inconclusive results.
Kikelomo Adebanke Kolawole +7 more
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Consequences of Thumb Sucking Habit among School Going Children: A Cross Sectional Study
Update Dental College Journal, 2023 Background: Thumb-sucking, a non-nutritive sucking behavior, is a natural reflex seen in infants but can persist into childhood if not addressed leading to various dental and orofacial issues, including malocclusion, dental arch deformities, speech ...
Huda Mannan +4 more
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Non-nutritive sucking habits after three years of age: A case-control study
Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, 2015 Background: Non-nutritive sucking habits can result in negative consequences on the development of orofacial structures and occlusion. Aim: Assess factors associated with non-nutritive sucking habits in children after 3 years old.
Izabella Barbosa Fernandes +5 more
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Impacts of self- and cross-sucking on cattle health and performance [PDF]
Veterinary World, 2016 Background: Improvement of dairy farms economics requires intensification, automatic milking, and artificial rearing methods. The ability to express normal behavior is one of the five freedoms to achieve animal welfare, whereas the display of abnormal ...
Motamed Elsayed Mahmoud +2 more
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Jornal de Pediatria, 2008 OBJETIVO: Determinar a influência da sucção não-nutritiva e da estimulação oral nas taxas de amamentação na alta hospitalar, aos 3 meses e 6 meses de idade corrigida em recém-nascidos pré-termo de muito baixo peso ao nascer.
Hellen P. Pimenta +5 more
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Lip biting scar and its treatment – A rare case report
Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences, 2023 Oral habits are an acquired mode of behavior that has become nearly or completely involuntary. Oral habits such as thumb sucking, lip sucking, tongue thrusting, lip biting, nail biting, object biting, and bruxism have serious health consequences. Several
Vaibhava Raaj +6 more
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Uso de chupeta: história e visão multidisciplinar Pacifier habit: history and multidisciplinary view
Jornal de Pediatria, 2009 OBJETIVOS: Resgatar a história da chupeta e fazer um levantamento multidisciplinar da literatura, buscando prós e contras, com o propósito de oferecer aos profissionais da saúde subsídios para orientarem os pais.
Silvia Diez Castilho +1 more
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A simple and affordable method for estimating the fluid volume a mosquito sucks using food dyes
Tropical Medicine and Health, 2021 Background Blood-sucking by mosquitoes is an inevitable behavior when pathogens are transmitted among humans. Adenine nucleotides such as ATP are known as phagostimulants for mosquitoes and are widely used to induce and enhance the blood-sucking activity
Chisako Sakuma, Hirotaka Kanuka
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Clinics, 2014 OBJECTIVES:The assessment of early sucking by preterm infants provides information on the ability of these infants to efficiently and safely receive nutrients via an oral route (oral feeding).
Flávia C.B. Neiva +8 more
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Influence of non-nutritive sucking habits on anterior open bite
Brazilian Journal of Oral Sciences, 2020 Aim: To evaluate the clinical behavior of sucking habits in children between 2 to 6 years old in a private (A1) and a public school (A2) in the state of Piauí.
Ana de Lourdes Sá de Lira +1 more
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