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• Bitten fingernails.
• Onicofagia.

DEFINITION

Bitting the fingernails is a bad habit that they have more than 30 % of the adolescents and slightly more than 5 % of the adults that consists of the habit of nibbling, of wearing out or of eating the fingernails with the teeth of habitual form.

CAUSES

Bitting the fingernails is a symptom of situations of stress or anxiety for diverse situations and as it in the adolescence it usually has his climax. To the being a reflex action, it does not realize and for it it is difficult to habit avoid this one before diverse anxiety situations, producing the astillamiento and slimming of the fingernails with a problem of clear esthetics and sometimes with infectious injuries in the lips (warts, herpes, etc...), he attends of wounds and raising of the skin periungueal in the shape of stepfathers who hurt and become infected.

The consequences, in addition to the infections, are esthetic in the hands, the lips and sometimes in the teeth that can turn out to be altered in his form.

TREATMENT

Of domestic form it tries to put itself plasters in the fingers to prevent the access of the teeth to the fingernails, or to apply nail polish to him with bitter flavors. With these remedies if it becomes possible to make aware the implied person it can be improving the process.

Nowadays methods are used odontológicos, that by means of the use of a badge at level of the molars limits the union of the top and low sharp teeth and one prevents the bite of the fingernails (the bite does not close), which begins to change the conditional anxiety habit - to bite fingernails, before the inability to do it.

This method together with the treatment of the stress and/or anxiety, inclusive professionally (psychologist) manages to solve most of the cases.

It is not a long treatment since in 4 to 6 weeks the topic can be solved if then a support is supported in the behavior. At the age of 12 weeks the esthetic aspect of the fingernails goes so far as to be completely normalized.

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