Introduction:

oral health is an integral part of general health, because an individual cannot be considered completely healthy if there is an active presence of oral disease.

Objective:

to describe the sanitary culture on deforming oral habits related to the superior transverse micrognathism in schoolchildren and Fourth Grade parents of the "Ciro Redondo" School during the year 2017.

Method:

a cross-sectional descriptive study on deforming buccal habits related to superior transverse micrognathism was carried out. The universe was constituted by 112 students of 4th grade of the School "Ciro Redondo" of the Bayamo municipality, in 2017. They were all part of the study. The variables studied were: level of knowledge, learning needs, deforming oral habits and superior transverse micrognathism, supported by theoretical, empirical and statistical methods.

Results:

the level of knowledge was inadequate: 67.85% in schoolchildren and 81.25% in parents, related to the learning needs on habits: tongue thrust, mouth breathing, digital suction and inadequate postures. The 100% presented deforming oral habits, of them 40.18% with superior transverse micrognathism, predominantly female.

Conclusions:

the level of knowledge was inadequate, with a slight predominance in the female sex of the superior transverse micrognathism and the inadequate sanitary culture in patients with deforming habits.

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