Abstract:
The commonest habit seen was thumb sucking,and the second commonest was nail
biting.Lip biting,finger sucking and dummy sucking habits were also common amongst the
children examined,with decreasing order of prevalence.Common malocclusions seen
amongst children with sucking habits were characterized by increased overjet,reduced
overbite,anterior openbite,spacing in upper anterior arch and crowding of lower anterior
arch, whereas in children with biting habits malocclusions such as raised overjet,crowding
and crossbites of anoterior dental arches and varying degrees of overbite were common.
