Buck teeth, known as maxillary protrusion deformity or bimaxillary protrusion deformity in medicine, is a common dental and maxillofacial deformity; it is mainly caused by hereditary factors, bad habits, oral and maxillofacial diseases, and some other reasons.
1. Heredity: some patients are affected by hereditary factors, resulting in small dental arches and crowded teeth, thus forming buck teeth.
2. Bad habits: Bad habits such as finger sucking, biting the lower lip, chewing on one side, etc. can easily lead to abnormalities in the teeth and jaws, thus forming buck teeth.
3. Oral and maxillofacial diseases: such as cleft lip and palate, missing milk teeth, supernumerary teeth, etc., can lead to buck teeth.
4. Other: such as infancy, improper feeding posture or the existence of pediatric rickets, chronic rhinitis and other underlying diseases, can also induce the formation of buck teeth; in addition, enlarged tonsils, adenoid hypertrophy and other diseases can lead to open-mouth breathing, which can cause the emergence of buck teeth.
Therefore, when buck teeth appear, we should pay attention to timely to the hospital, can wear orthodontic appliances and surgery and other methods of corrective treatment.