ORAL HABITS IN 3 TO 12 YEARS OLD CHILDREN: A BURDEN ON DEVELOPING DENTITION
Journal Title: IJSR-International Journal Of Scientific Research - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
Introduction : A habit is a repetitive action that is being done automatically. Repetitive behaviors are common in infantile period and most of them starts and finishes spontaneously. Those habits which continue beyond a certain period of time are deemed deleterious oral habits and they are responsible for causing malocclusion in permanent dentition. The present study evaluates the prevalence of oral habits in 3- 12 years of children attending government and private schools at Dung and Bhilai city of Chhattisgarh. Materials and Methods: Epidemiological study was carried out among 909 children from various government and private schools children in Chhattisgarh. A thorough history was obtained on a specially designed proforma and presence or absence of oral habits like thumb/finger sucking, tongue thrusting, mouth breathing, lip biting, nail biting and bruxism were recorded. Results: The results shows that out of 909 children 497(54.7%) had oral habits. (48.2 %) Mouth breathing was the most common occurrence followed by Thumb sucking habit (18.9%) and tongue thrust (12.7%). All the habits were more frequent among 3 to 6 years of age. Anterior open bite was found to be (27.0 %) and high significant value with nail biting (16.3%) was found .Therefore presence of mouth breathing, thumb sucking and tongue thrusting habit were directly associated with development of malocclusion in the permanent dentition. Conclusions: There was a high prevalence of malocclusion associated with oral habits harmful to deciduous dentition.
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Rashi Dubey, Nilotpol Kashyap, Alok Avinash, Brij Kumar
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