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Can Pacifiers and Thumb Sucking Affect My Child’s Teeth?

In short, yes. While thumb sucking or pacifier use is one of an infant’s natural reflexes, prolonged sucking can exert force on the teeth and jaws.  If your child sucks a thumb, finger, pacifier, or lips, their teeth or jaw growth may be affected (some bone changes can actually occur as early as 18 months). […]

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Two-Thirds of What Goes On in Your Mouth Is Below the Surface

Just like what’s under the bread in a sandwich. Orthodontists use x-rays to check below the surface to look for extra teeth, missing teeth, impacted teeth or teeth coming into the wrong positions. Speaking of extra teeth, did you know snails have over 14,000? A full set of adult human teeth has only 32. Why […]

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