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Show Educator Suggests Cure For Chronic Thumb-Sucker CHICAGO. Parents would do more for their thumb-sucking offspring off-spring by seeking a psychological si'.bstitute for the habit. That is the belief of Dr. George W. Teuscher, assistant professor of child dentistry dentis-try at Northwestern university. In studying 173 children with the habit, he' found that all but three suffered from deformities of the lips, jaws and teeth, he reported in the Journal of the American Dental Den-tal Association. ' The easiest solution for parents is to prevent formation of the habit, but where thumb:sucking is already being practiced, mechanical contrivances con-trivances sometimes are effective in checking it. Dr. Teuscher would prefer, -however, that parents study the individual indi-vidual child to determine the best "psychological formula" for correction, correc-tion, even though this approach frequently fre-quently involves parent education in child develooment. |