Influence of adenotomy/adenoidectomy on the respiration and occlusion in mouth-breathing children

Abstract

Introduction: Difficult nasal breathing is a common problem, which may be a result of multiple factors, leading to physiological disturbance and/or anatomical disorders of the nose and paranasal sinuses. One of the most frequent reasons in childhood age is adenoid hypertrophy. Aim: The aim of the current article is to determine the influence of adenotomy and adenoidectomy on the respiration and occlusion of children with difficult nasal breathing Materials and Methods: A total of 412 children, diagnosed with difficult nasal breathing, took part in the study. Of them, 139 underwent a second clinical examination in the period of 1 to 3 months to determine the way of breathing after adenotomy/adenoidectomy.Results: In primary dentition, after removing the etiological factor for difficult nasal breathing, 68.00% of the children began to breathe spontaneously through the nose. In mixed dentition, there was a higher percentage of children, who maintained mouth breathing as a bad habit. In comparison to the dental class after adenotomy/adenectomy, there was a higher percentage of Angle class II. In the saggital plane there was an

Prevalence Of Parafunctional Habits And Temporomandibular Disorder Symptoms In Young Individuals Reporting To Watim Dental Hospital

“…10 Mouth breathing was the second most common habit in the present study as well as in results reported by Aloumi et al 10 This may be due to the high prevalence of deviated nasal septum or adenoids in the general population. 14,15 The results of the present research show that the most prevalent temporomandibular joint disorder symptom observed is noise from TMJ (66%) followed by pain, and difficulty in mouth opening and the least common symptom seen was jaw getting stuck (24%). These results are in total accordance with the results of the study by Atsu et al and Chazopoulos et al who reported TMJ noises to be the most common, pain to be 2 nd most common followed by difficulty in jaw opening.…”