Here is the next podcast covering the habit appliance.
I usually split my habit appliances into thumb-sucking and tongue-thrusting. But in this is kind of a combo appliance the “arches” in the palette are designed to break the thumb sucking habit by preventing the vacuum that is caused by the thumb coming in contact with the roof of the mouth. The doctor in this case decided to add “spikes” to the distal of the arches thereby detouring tongue thrusting. Again like I say in the podcast this is usually a last ditch effort to break this bad habit, so this appliance is not made to be comfortable.
Sorry this took so look we were super swamped in the lab for about 2 months! We are usually busy during the what I like to call “the back to school rush” but never this busy before! This is good, it keeps me out of trouble, but i didn’t have any time to edit this video. I still have tons of footage to comb through, but editing it together in a coherent way takes more time than I thought!
