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  • Title: Prevalence of thumb sucking in children of Calcutta.
    Author: Sarkar S, Chowdhury KS, Mukherjee MM.
    Journal: J Indian Soc Pedod Prev Dent; 1992 Mar; 10(1):33-6. PubMed ID: 1308248.
    Abstract:
    The prevalence study of thumb digital sucking carried out on 3-12-year- old 2517 children, 1293 boys & 1224 girls, with different socio-economic status, belonging to villages, suburbs and city areas of Calcutta revealed that non-nutritional sucking habit was predominantly seen in cities, and bottle feeding was found to be the main cause of this habit; in 3-6-year-old children the prevalence of the habit was more in boys than girls but it persisted more in boys with increase in age.
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