Nail bite

Nail biting is a common oral habit that occurs mostly in children and young people. About 30% of children aged 7 to 10 and 45% of adolescents have this habit. Nail biting refers to the habit of biting your nails or toenails under stress, stress, hunger or boredom. Sometimes it is a symptom of psychological or emotional loss of control. This is a compulsive, even unconscious behavioral habit, and sometimes patients are unable or difficult to realize their behavior. There have been records showing that some patients bite their nails when they fell asleep. For this kind of behavior, there are explanations that it is due to stress caused during dreaming or events in the dream, or due to the manifestation of normal stress. Biting nails is considered the most common form of mild self-harm. According to Freudian theory, nail biting is a manifestation of stickiness during the tongue period. The medical term used to describe this behavior is "nail bite."