Thumb sucking
my 3yr old son sucks his thumb i have been told by the dentist to get him off his thumb which is hard than said i have tried plasters which is pulls off or bites and i have tried stop n grow which is to help them from stopping them suck their thumb but it doesnt work with my son he will stilll suck his thumb can anyone help thank you emmarist
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My eldest sucks his thumb.
He has always done it. He used to suck his thumb and cuddle his favourite bedtime toy whenever he was tired or upset.
He is 9 now and its more infrequent. He only does it as he drifts off to sleep.
The dentist never said it would be a problem. And he has really nice teeth.
My youngest son had a dummy when he was little and we had no problems with that either.
I think if its a form of comfort then you should let him be and he will stop doing it in his own time. Forcing the issue will probably make him want to do it more.
Welcome to pp by the way
Should be used in pp if they ever do a feature on it.
My daughter is two and seems to be sucking her thumb more and more, you can notice that they have been pushed forward which is worrying me as her adult teeth may protrude too.
I would really like some advice on this in more detail, i'm going to try the mustard technique to see if this will work for her, i have been trying to give her an orthodontic dummy to see if this will leave room for the teeth to correct themselves.
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease can anyone help?
Hi Emma i was a thumb sucker who had a thumb in 24/7 and have been told that i still do when im a sleep sometimes
as yumyum said it can change the bite of the jaw, my teeth do not meet when i bite down the top come over the bottom and i have a thumb shaped pallet which is a bit higher than it should be
the only real problem i have had with it is that where the jaw is out of alignment im always biting the inside of my cheeks,my tounge or my lip especially if i try to chew gum which can be painful this can also happen when sneezing which hurts more as your totally un prepared for it.
my little sister also thumb sucks but she was given a retainer brace but there is a 10year age gap so maybe by the time she got seen they were doing things differently
hope this helps
jean
Hehe,thats what i was thinking,maybe coz the others are reliatively new.
What about trying a drop of fresh lemon juice.
I have a 3yr old daughter and when she was born she refused to take the dummy and started to suck her thumb at around 8 weeks, i started to panick thinking how the hell am i suppossed to stop her from doing it as i knew how hard my son was to get off the dummy. I mean i cldnt really chop her thumb off cld i lol. But she finally cut it out on her own just before her 3rd birthday, i think with her it was a comfort thing. I think some parents r lucky enuff if their child stops on their own but obviously gets alot harder if u have to try n persuade. Good luck.
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