ok well how many of you with braces used to suck your thumb when you were younger cos i never did and have realluy good teeth and jw whether sucking your thumb or finger made a difference
2007-02-01 04:26:30 · 12 answers · asked by gracie92 2 in Health ➔ Dental
thumb sucking or finger sucking at childhood causes upper anterior teeth outwards making the narrow and in severe case giving typical fish mouth appearence.besides it causes tongue thrusting habit that causes difficulties in speech and chewing
2007-02-01 04:51:47 · answer #1 · answered by anis118030 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to suck my thumb all the time!! I have braces at the moment and I'm not sure if it was because of that, but my front teeth were quite a bit forward. In fact, I sucked my thumb last week.... hehe no I'm jokin... :S xxxx
2007-02-01 04:52:11 · answer #2 · answered by tonnage 17 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I sucked my thumb for a pretty long time, and did wear braces but only for a short period. I don't think the thumb-sucking was the reason.... but my jaw shape... My teeth r just fine now...
2007-02-01 04:40:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to suck my thumb so much, I looked frikin Bucky Beaver!!! When I was about 5 my mom brought to me to a specialist who told me that he was gonna give one year to stop sucking my thumb or I would need braces when I got older. Needles to say I stopped and now I have great teeth!!!!
2007-02-01 04:35:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obvisily you have braces for a reason. appropriate enamel. you do no longer want to bite the gum with the sugar for the reality that sugar isn't stable on your enamel. I bite sugar loose only because of the fact i'm a gum addict. attempt to discover a sugar loose gum that does no longer stick. i like Trident. you recognize those people who've white spots on their enamel after braces? that's from sugar. shield them good the 1st time and you will no longer could concern approximately them later. Braces are no longer low priced.
2016-11-23 20:29:24 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My son is in the process of getting braces and he never sucked his thumb........he was a preemie and it was hard to get him to drink from a bottle and he never took a pacifier.
2007-02-01 04:47:58 · answer #6 · answered by paula0005 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i sucked my thumb. dont think it made my teeth how they were, tho. i think a lot had to do with how my jaw was genetically engineered.
my sister also sucked her thumb, and she has straight-as-a-board teeth.
2007-02-01 04:33:41 · answer #7 · answered by Syd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've never heard that thoery before
i never sucked my thumb but yet i still had to have braces
2007-02-01 05:17:50 · answer #8 · answered by lil_miss_gobbriella 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i never sucked my thumb, never knew why people do. but no, never affected me.
2007-02-01 04:36:00 · answer #9 · answered by Karen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't, but i DID faceplant while skating on ice without a helmet. That was one gross day.
2007-02-01 04:29:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋