Características clínicas y cefalométricas de pacientes respiradores bucales atendidos en el módulo Santa Elena de la Facultad de Odontología Universidad de Los Andes Mérida – Venezuela

Abstract

Mouth breathing is a common habit in patients of developing age, the tongue is located in a descending position, deforming the palate as it deepens. According to the literature, there are clinical and cephalometric variations in detectable mouth-breathing children, however, no studies have been found related to the description of the clinical and cephalometric characteristics of mouth-ventilators attended at the Children's Clinic of the Santa Elena Module of the Faculty of Dentistry, ULA. The objective was to determine the clinical and cephalometric characteristics obtained from the medical records of mouth-breathing patients treated at the Children's Clinic of the Santa Elena Module between 2008 and 2018. The research was descriptive in scope with a non-experimental cross-sectional design. The population was determined by the medical records of the children seen at the Children's Clinic of the Santa Elena Module diagnosed as oral respirators between 2008 and 2018. Descriptive statistics were used for the presentation of the results, and for the processing of the data by the SPSS software. . This study concluded that the mesoprosopo facial type, convex profile, as well as the deep pointed palate predominated in terms of clinical characteristics. Regarding the cephalometric characteristics, they were found in upper and lower E, ANB, SN-SGN and ENA-Me were above the norm, while the SNB angle and the interincisal angle were lower than the norm.