Orofacial Myofunctional Profile of Children treated in dental pediatric department of University Hospital of Aracaju / SE

Abstract

BACKGROUND: To trace the profile of health in a community is important for the implementation of actions at different levels of care as well as to structure interdisciplinary services in Health. OBJECTIVE: To describe the miofunctional  profile of children at the pediatric dental attendance of the university hospital , enabling future proposals of interdisciplinary performances. METHODS: It is a clinical observational, descriptive and quantitative study, conducted from a screening with 60 children of both genders, aged from five to ten years, all from the pediatric dentistry clinic at the University Hospital (UH) Federal de Sergipe. Parents or guardians authorized the inclusion of children by signing the Instrument of Consent. The protocol used was MBGR (Genaro et al., 2009), adapted. RESULTS: Of the 60 children studied, 34 were male (56.7%) and 26 females (43.3%). Of these, 39 (65.0%) showed changes in respiration, 36 (60.0%) on chewing, 26 (43.3%) of swallowing, 21 (35.0%) in speech and 6 (10.0 %) did not present changes in orofacial miofunctional structures. CONCLUSIONS: It was observed that most of the children had miofunctional disorder, with changes on the breathing mode and chewing being the most prevalent in the studied group. From data obtained from this study, it is justified the importance of the partnership between speech therapy and Pediatric Dentistry and Otolaryngology, in order to minimize the impact of orofacial miofunctional changes and maximize the quality of life of these children.