Deleterious oral habits tied with different types of malocclusions in children
Dental malocclusions in the vertical, transverse, sagittal planes are linked with deleterious habits in pediatric patients according to a recent stud published in the BMC Oral Health.
Malocclusion is a misalignment of the upper and lower teeth, where an adequate gear of bone structures between the maxilla and jaw is not observed, resulting on the lack of an ideal function of the masticatory apparatus.
Malocclusion is highly reported among mixed dentition cases. Therefore, we aimed to determine the relationship of dental malocclusions in the vertical, transverse, sagittal planes with deleterious habits in pediatric patients.
A cross-sectional analytical study was carried out on 155 children aged 6–12 years attended at the clinic of the School of Dentistry of Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in 2017.
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