| Title: | Parenting |
| Notice: | Previous PARENTING version at MOIRA::PARENTING_V3 |
| Moderator: | GEMEVN::FAIMAN Y |
| Created: | Thu Apr 09 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1292 |
| Total number of notes: | 34837 |
My daughter just turn 9 in August. Her front teeth actually
came in perfectly straight. Over a year ago, her dentist
told me that her front teeth were spreading apart because
her tongue kept pushing forward when she swallowed. I was
told that a tongue trainer would solve the problem. She
has been going to the dentist every 6 months and the
dentist has been postponing putting in the tongue trainer.
It is a wait-and-see thing.
This morning the dentist again wanted to wait another 6
months to see if the problem can correct itself. The
dentist said that the gaps were not getting any wider
so the situation has stablized.
My concern are - the forward pushing tongue and the gaps
in the front teeth are causing a speech problem; and I
am also worried about the necessity of braces in the future
due to the delay treatments. I had talk to the dentist
about these issues and I am not too excited about his
answers.
Do any of you out there have similar experiences?
Eva
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| 821.1 | WONDER::MAKRIANIS | Patty | Tue Sep 13 1994 14:43 | 17 | |
I had tongue thrust corrected before my braces were put on. I did not
have a tongue trainer (an appliance) but a tongue trainer (a
therapist). I was sent to a speech therapist once a week for n? weeks.
Each week she would teach me new exercises to do; swallowing water
without pushing my tongue into my teeth, saying "L" words without
pushing my front teeth, saying "s" words without pushing, etc. I had
to practice these exercises for 30 minutes every night and to try and
be aware of what I was doing the rest of the day. Now, this all
happened when I was about 12 (21 years ago) so this may not be an
option anymore. I would maybe ask the dentist if he has some statistics
on how many cases like this he's seen correct themselves. If the
percentage is high, then maybe he knows what he's talking about; if the
percentage is low then maybe you need to question him some more on why
he feels your daughter's tongue thrust will correct itself.
Patty
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| 821.2 | LTSLAB::KUDLICH | nathan's & morgan's mom! | Wed Sep 14 1994 13:04 | 11 | |
My ister is a tongue thruster, and has a terrible bite, due to grinding
and to this thrusting thing. She is getting an appliance, but at 35,
thee isn't a whole lot that can be done. She wears a night guard for
the grinding, but the dentist now seems to feel the thrusting may be at
fault for more of the problems...I'd get another opinion,cause it's so
hard to get adult teeth to be fixed! I'm going to tell my sister about
the therapist; that may work better for her than the appliance too.
Regards,
Adrienne
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