Abstract

AROCHA ARZUAGA, Alina; ARANDA GODINEZ, María Silvia; PEREZ PEREZ, Yisel  and  GRANADOS HORMIGO, Ana Elena. Malocclusions and deforming oral habits in school children with early mixed teething. MEDISAN [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.4, pp. 429-435. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional study of 150 scholars aged 6 to 7 with malocclusions and oral deforming habits who were in the second grade of "Nguyen Van Troi" Primary School in Santiago de Cuba, assisted during 2013 was carried out to characterize them according to selected variables. The primary information was obtained by means of the interrogation and the physical exam made to each patient. Among the main results the male sex (52.0%), malocclusions in this same sex (59.3%) and the use of baby bottle as deforming habit (41.1%) prevailed. It is concluded that in most of the children, deforming oral dysfunctions were related to the presence of teething malocclusions

Keywords : child; malocclusion; deforming habit; occlusion; early mixed teething.