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CARDENAS BRAVO, Ángeles María; REDONDO TORRES, Mayerly Shamirey; ARMIJOS MORETA, Jaime Fernando  y  GAVILANEZ VILLAMARIN, Silvia Marisol. Breastfeeding and influence of maxillary development in infants from 0 to 5 years old. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2023, vol.27, suppl.1  Epub 01-Jul-2023. ISSN 1561-3194.

ABSTRACT Introduction: breastfeeding makes possible an increase and convenient development of the oral artifact, favorably stimulates muscular action through the mechanical work performed by the newborn to suck and swallow milk. Objective: to determine the level of knowledge on the importance of breastfeeding for the normal development of the jaws in children from zero to five years of age, San Jacinto del Búa parish, Santo Domingo, Ecuador. Methods: an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, descriptive study was carried out to determine the level of knowledge of mothers with breastfeeding children about the importance of breastfeeding for the normal development of the jaws. The universe was constituted by 36 mothers, the sample by 20, obtained by simple random sampling according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. In order to obtain the data, a survey was made, the variables and the information collected were statistically described by means of absolute and relative percentage frequencies. Results: it was possible to determine that 63 % of the population of 20 mothers ranged between 31 and 52 years of age and the other 37 % were between 19 and 30 years of age. It can be observed that 57 % of the children had an age range of zero to one year, 23 % corresponded to children from one to two years of age and the rest of the sample was represented by children aged three years and older. Sixty-one percent of the mothers knew only the benefits on swallowing and to a lesser extent the rest knew about chewing 15 %, esthetics and phonation, leaving 18 % of the mothers who only saw breastfeeding as having a nutritional function. Conclusions: breastfeeding increases mandibular stimuli and maintains the physiological cycle of nasal breathing because it has the perfect setting to allow the baby to breathe through the nose while inhaling and swallowing rhythmically without releasing the nipple.

Palabras clave : JAW; BREAST FEEDING; MALOCCLUSION; BENEFITS; NUTRIENTS..

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