Relação entre maloclusão e postura cervical no respirador bucal infantil.

Abstract

The breath is a vital function for any human being, thus it being essential for the functioning of the stomatognathic system. Nevertheless, if after a period longer than six months the respiratory nasal patter has replaced to oral or mixed patters, it is called the Syndrome of mouth breathing. From that moment on, it has not a properly treatment over the first years of life, which can causes modifications on the respiratory patter that could be very difficult to correct in the future. Nowadays the correlation between malocclusion and body posture is one of the many studied and discussed changes. The aim of this work was to explore and investigate using the recent literature reviews about the correlation between malocclusion and cervical posture in the infant mouth-breathing patient, which was done to measure the prevalence of that alteration and its possible correlation. According to the studies, it has suggested that the postural turnings are more related to the mouth breathing than some specific malocclusion, therefore it is believed that the mouth breathing has big influence on the malocclusion. However, there have been studies lacking about the intimate correlation between malocclusion and cervical posture because there is no consensus on the literature about the cause and effect among these systems.