Prevalencia de pacientes respiradores bucales en la Clínica de Odontopediatría de la UCSG

Abstract

Introduction: Breathing disorders during sleep, either oral breathing due to obstruction or habit will produce serious alterations in the stomatological system that will affect children both functionally and psychically. The objective of this study is to determine if a patient is a mouth breather through secondary symptoms that manifest daily. Objective: To determine the prevalence of oral respiration patients by means of symptomatology presented by children suffering from this syndrome in th Pediatric Dentistry Clinic at UCSG. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional analytical and descriptive research study was carried out. We observed 70 pediatric patients that were treated in the Pediatric Dentistry Clinic of the UCSG, a survey was carried out to the respective representative of each child in which variables such as the age of the patient, symptoms that occur during sleep, symptoms that occur during the day, if there is low academic performance or some type of problem with the language. The data was made in Microsoft Excel 2010. A sample formula was calculated, averages, standard deviation and frequencies, values P and CHI Cuad. Results: The prevalence of patients with oral ventilator syndrome was around 25 children (35.71%) of both genders of the 70 observed, manifested mostly in the age ranges between 7, 8, and 10 years. Among the symptoms that most manifested during the night were habitual snoring while sleeping with 96%, restless sleep with 84%, and sleeping with an open mouth with 84% . Problems with academic performance (attention deficit hyperactivity) were significantly associated with children with this deficit. Discussion: According to studies, habitual snoring is probably the most observable symptom and is found in 81% of children in the world with SDS, and the most common reasons that lead a child to suffer from the syndrome are upper airway obstruction or the perioral flaccidity.