Descripción de hábitos orales parafuncionales en niños atendidos en las clínicas del niño de la universidad santo Tomás

Abstract

Background: A habit is a practice that is done regulary and automatically, over which the subject has little voluntary control. There are two types of oral habits: Physiological and non physiological. Physiological habits allow a normal development of the Stomatognatic System, while the parafunctional ones are considered interderences in the development of the Stomatognatic System. Therefore, the objective of this study was to describe the parafunctional oral habits of children treated at the Children’s Clinics of the Santo Tomás University (USTA), during the first academic period of 2015. Method: The study was a descriptive cross-sectional observational type; where 115 guardians of the patients treated at Children’s Clinic, were surveyed, variables such as age, sex and type of habits were used. Results: 80,2% of the population presented some type of parafunctional habit, of which 56% were boys and 44% were girls, the most frequent habit was to chew objects 46,6%, followed by onicofagia 39,7% and bruxism 28,4%. Conclusions: The habits ere mostly present in chilndren between 6 and 9 years old. Chewing objects being the most common, In females, the habit with a higher percentage was onicofagia, and in males chewing objects.