If you suck your thumb after all your teeth have grown in, it wont effect your teeth right?

Question

*i mean after you have lost all your baby teeth
* i have all my adult teeth i don't think i don't think i have baby teeth left, , i'm almost 11. Help!!!

Or can someone atleast give me advice on how to stop. pleaseee>>>

and i really don't want braces

Answer 1

Wrong. It can make your teeth stick out.

Answer 2

The older you are the less likely that your teeth will move due to thumb sucking. This is because, while your mouth is forming it is composed of soft tissues, as opposed to bone, that are more maleable, or pliable.

Additionally, a lot also depends on your sucking method. If you are a passive sucker, one who puts your thumb in without actually sucking, chances are little movement will occur due to the lack of consistent and strong thumb pressure.

At your age teeth are still quite moveable but, if you haven't done much by now, chances are you won't in the future, and less so as you age. In fact, to move adult teeth when you're, say, 20 years old would require (typically) 12+ hours of pressure which is why braces usually take so long to work.

As for thumb sucking affecting teeth. Yes, it can. But the great majority of thumb suckers do not have appreciable dental malocclusions so, for the most part, this is not true, in a practical sense. Realize that dentists won't necessarily agree to this belief but note that they have a biased sample, meaning, they only get to see the ones that do affect their teeth. It therefore makes sense that they believe this. Fact is, the great majority of thumb suckers do fine.

Answer 3

you will definately moveyour teeth out. Don't kid yourself. To stop, try wrapping an ace bandage around your elbow, You'll cut off circulation when you bendyour arm, you will naturally remove your thumb.Have your parents buy you s blanket that is really soft, with a silk ribbon. You mightbe able to rub your thumb and finger on the silk and relieve a little of the sucking urge. I know some people who still sucked their thumb in collee. Theywere really asshamed of it, had really bad buck teeth. Try to break the habit now. Maybe a night guard would help. Buuy a mouthpiece for whitening and sleep in it. Your dentist can put in a spikeed wire in the rof of your mouth, that works. You can try hot sauce on your finger, but if you rub it in your eye that is bad. Put a bandaid on it . Anything to deter the sensation you get, so help

Answer 4

wrong...teeth can always move, just very slowly. slowly eating away ridge (bone) on one side of your aveolar bone and building it back up on the other depending on where the force is applied, no ones too young for braces!

if you really want to stop your dentist can make you an appliance that will fit inside your mouth and it has spikes behind your front upper teeth.

and if your teeth are out a bit, cause it sound like you've been doing this a while the appliance can double to straighten them like braces but not as bad

Answer 5

Yes it can, it's like giving yourself a plate. If you suck your thumb and you're putting pressure on your front teeth, you can push them forward over a long period of time.

And if you're still growing (even with all your teeth) it can affect the shape of your palate.

Answer 6

Actually yes. You will develop an overbite which will need braces to fix.

I sucked my thumb until 5th grade lol

Answer 7

No, that is a myth