Thumb Sucking
Melissa Harris2014-04-11T21:05:00+00:00When should my child stop sucking their thumb and how can I stop them? From a dental point of view, in particular the Canadian Academy of Pediatric Dentists, we recommend that a child stops the habit of sucking their thumb by age three. We find that if a child is able to stop that habit by age three there is no lasting affects to the dentition. What affects can happen from sucking the thumb? One of things that can happen is the front teeth are pushed forward. Another thing that can happen, which depends upon the intensity which the child is [...]