title: A Single Versatile Appliance for Habit Interception and Crossbite Correction.
abstract: Digit sucking is a common childhood behavior, which has an adaptive value for children up to the fourth year of life. It is usually associated with oral pleasure and self-comforting behavior. But chronic practice may produce deleterious effect in the form of dental and skeletal deformities. Adjunctive therapy using bluegrass appliance as a permanent reminder and quadhelix appliance as a reminder as well as a slow palatal expander has proven successful in intercepting digit-sucking habit and expanding the arch for crossbite correction. In the present case, a versatile modified quadhelix appliance incorporating a roller was designed to clinically correct the habit and its resulting dentofacial deformities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric & Preventive Dentistry, Navodaya Dental College and Hospital, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Raichur, Karnataka 584103, India.
authors.forename: Mohammed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zameer
authors.affiliation: Department of Restorative Dental Science, College of Dentistry, Jazan University, Jazan 45142, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Syed Nahid
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Basheer
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthodontics, Navodaya Dental College and Hospital, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Raichur, Karnataka 584103, India.
authors.forename: Arun
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.affiliation: Department of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, KVG Dental College & Hospital, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Sullia, Karnataka 574239, India.
authors.forename: Suresh Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Kovvuru