The Management of Digit Sucking Habits course for Dental Practice
This session informs the healthcare worker how to deal with patients with digit sucking habits. This includes both thumb and finger sucking. The session will look at which patients require intervention to help them stop the habit and the various methods that can be employed.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Explain how to prevent digit sucking habits becoming prolonged habits
- List both non-physical and physical methods that help patients break the habit
- Identify when to use both non-physical and physical methods to help patients break the habit
Digit sucking should be stopped by the time the first molars have emerged. There are several approaches you can take to break the habit ranging from gentle reminders to deterrent appliances.
Before commencing this session you should have knowledge of:
- History-taking
- Orthodontic assessment
Anjli qualified from Sheffield University in 2000. After vocational training, she spent the next three years working as a Senior House Officer in Oral and Maxillofacial surgery. She trained as an orthodontist at the Eastman Dental Institute and Kettering General Hospital where she gained a Masters degree in Orthodontics. She is currently in her second year of FTTA training at the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital in Sheffield, and Chesterfield Royal Hospital.
$89.10
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