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  • Ask Your Dulles Pediatric Dentist: How do I stop my child’s thumb sucking?

    "All I want for Christmas is my baby to stop sucking her thumb. It's such a terrible habit. Help me, Smilez Pediatric Dental Group Loudoun. How can I stop the thumb-sucking? —Concerned for my baby's teeth" Dear Concerned, Thumb-sucking is a totally natural and normal behavior in young children. Babies are born with the natural urge to suck — at the breast, on pacifiers, their fingers, thum...