Is your child still engaging in thumb-sucking? Children’s Choice Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics (202-410-0088) in Washington, D.C, can help him or her stop the habit with myofunctional interventions.
Imagine the relief of knowing that your child's thumb-sucking habit, often perceived as a cause for dental concern, can be addressed effectively.
If you’ve done everything you can on your own to break your child’s thumb, tongue, or pacifier sucking habit to no avail, this dental practice may just know the trick that would work.
Children’s Choice Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics offers myofunctional therapy alongside other interventions to treat common orofacial myofunctional disorders in children, like thumb, finger, and tongue sucking.
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Dr. Jonelle Grant Anamelechi, the primary physician at the practice’s Washington D.C., location, explains that prolonged non-nutritive sucking (NNS) habits can cause developmental issues with the teeth, jaw, and facial muscles, as well as misalignment problems in children.
The doctor strives to provide you with effective solutions to assist your child overcome these early-stage habits, thereby enhancing their eating, breathing, and speech abilities.
While NNS habits may be natural and soothing for your child, if left untreated and allowed to persist beyond the age of four, they can lead to complications such as abnormal tongue resting posture, reduced tongue range of motion, and swallowing and speech difficulties.
The practice’s treatments are designed to provide early intervention to correct these issues before your child’s facial growth is complete in the teenage years.
Children's Choice’s in-house clinicians use the latest myofunctional techniques, including physical therapy of the oral musculature, to retrain your child’s orofacial muscles. This therapy is non-invasive and helps correct and relieve functional issues while enhancing your little one’s facial appearance.
"Oral habits in growing children determine teeth, face, jaw, and airway development. Correcting poor habits early on can transform a child’s present and future oral health," a clinic spokesperson said. "Through physical therapy of the oral musculature, myofunctional intervention remedies poor muscle function that would inevitably lead to diminished airway, misaligned teeth, and facial growth issues."
Key components of the practice’s treatment involve training your child on proper swallowing, tongue placement, and nasal breathing.
By teaching these techniques and implementing physical therapy approaches, Children’s Choice promotes positive oral health outcomes while averting the negative social and psychological consequences of prolonged NNS habits.
Children’s Choice Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics is committed to providing quality, effective, and child-friendly dental treatments for young patients. The practice has locations in Washington D.C., and New Carrollton, MD.
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Now you can say goodbye to thumb guards and bitter nail polishes when you visit Children's Choice Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics.
In addition to the services above, Children’s Choice Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics offers frenectomy consultations for lip-tie or tongue-tie treatment.
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