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From: sct@lanl.ARPA
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Subject: Re: thumb sucking
Message-ID: <28936@lanl.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 15:05:40 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 15:05:40 1985
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> 	I am looking for information on how to stop a 6 year old from
> sucking her thumb. She only sucks it in the daytime, but during that daytime
> it is constant.  She would rather suck her thumb than anything else.
> 	This is really starting to piss me off.  
> 	She has plenty of friends, does well in school, has lots of outside
> things to do, but......in the end she would rather suck her thumb.
> 
> 
> 	help.

	Our 6 yr old was still sucking her fingers when we got a device
put in her mouth to discourage the sucking.  It fits on the roof of
her mouth and is held in place by attaching it with a special glue to
her back molars.  The dentist suggested this to keep her over bite from
getting worse and said she should keep it in her mouth for about 3 months.
  The first few days she had it in she complained a bit but has now accepted
it and is not sucking her fingers anymore.  We figure this is better than
wearing braces and having an overbite in later years.  Ask your dentist
about it.

Steve Tenbrink
sct@lanl.arpa