Thumb sucking habit is very common among kids. Most of the small children are normally found as thumb suckers right from the time they are infants. Generally, babies suck their thumbs as it give comfort to them and it also acts a better replacement of feeding bottles. So, most of the infants got this habit of sucking thumb. In general, this habit continues until the age of three to four but in some cases you find that even after six years some of the kids are unable to leave this cute habit. It is required that children should leave this habit after they crosses three to four years otherwise it will affect the growth of their teeth and jaws. Now-a-days you will find numerous cases of thumb sucking even in grown up child due to which they have got deformed teeth. In order to provide proper alignment to the teeth of thumb suckers, braces have been developed by the dentists.

Thumb sucking and braces are quite common today as number of children are found now-a-days who are unable to break their habit of sucking thumbs due to which they have got buck teeth. Due to prolonged habit of thumb sucking normally children suffer from dental problems. Some of the common ill-effects of this habit are cited below:

• Harm to teeth and jaws
• Affect the growth of teeth
• Protrusion of upper front teeth
• Tilted teeth on the bottom jaw
• Anterior open bite when the front teeth of upper and lower jaw unable to touch each other

Such types of dental problems can make your teeth malformed and also creates problems while chewing food and speaking. It changes the facial appearance of your child which seems to be ugly due to which it might be possible that your kid will lose the confidence and feel inferior in front of others. So, it is essential to remove such habits of thumb sucking and consult the dentist in case your child unable to leave this habit and have got deformed teeth. With the help of braces you can easily break the habit of sucking thumb and can properly aligned the teeth of your child. So, if your kid is having such types of habits then try to break it as soon as possible otherwise your child have to suffer a lot in the future. Unless you will not arrange braces for your child the original shape of the teeth will not be regained.