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Help please? what health risks associated with adult thumb sucking?
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Overbite: Which is worse ? Sucking your thumb at age 47 or having to wear braces? Neither or both. It depends. You probably wont do much harm to the thumb unless you happen to forget its there, get in a car accident or have a convulsive seizure and end up biting down on it. Compulsions, anxiety and oral fixation can be treated if it causing the person distress.
Answered 3/21/2021
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