Relationship between oral habits and spirometry maneuvers, in children

Abstract

Purpose: to analyze whether deleterious oral habits can influence the number of attempts of forced spirometry maneuvers performed by healthy children. Methods: this observational and cross-sectional analytical study included 149 healthy children aged 6-12 years attending public and private schools in Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. A validated protocol was applied for the analysis of deleterious oral habits. The children were grouped according to the number of spirometry maneuvers needed to achieve successful spirometry results, as follows: G1) children who needed 3 maneuvers; G2) 4 maneuvers; G3) 5-8 maneuvers. Data were analyzed with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and the Kruskal-Wallis test was applied to compare quantitative variables between the groups. The Chi-square test was used to assess the association between the groups and qualitative variables. Results: there was no association between the number of attempts and the qualitative variables evaluated by the protocol. There was also no difference between the groups regarding quantitative variables for breastfeeding time, breastfeeding occurrence, use of pacifiers, and thumb sucking. Conclusion: the presence of DOH did not influence the number of forced spirometry maneuvers, performed by the healthy children in this study.

Influência do desmame precoce nas más oclusões de Classe II: revisão de literatura

“…O crescimento e desenvolvimento dos ossos e músculos da face podem ser afetados pelos hábitos orais, que são movimentos repetitivos na cavidade oral como sucção digital, sucção de língua, sucção de bicos e chupetas, ação de morder lábio ou unhas e de protrusão lingual, possibilitando o aparecimento de más oclusões [17][18] . O hábito de sucção é um fator etiológico deletério em potencial para o surgimento da má oclusão, dependendo de sua frequência, intensidade e duração 19 .…”

Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the “Protocolo de Avaliação Miofuncional Orofacial MBGR” from Brazilian Portuguese into English

“…The Protocolo MBGR has been widely used in Brazilian SLPs' clinical practice and national scientific research on Orofacial Myology [9,35,36,[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56]. Moreover, it was validated for individuals with temporomandibular disorders [38] and adapted and validated for individuals with cleft lip and palate [37].…”