The Importance of the Natural Milk to Prevent Myofuncional and Orthodontics Alterations

Sílvia Elaine Zuim Moraes BALDRIGHI, Arnaldo PINZAN, Carmen Vivian D. ZWICKER, Cibele Ribeiro da Silva MICHELINI, Daniela Rodrigues BARROS, Fabíola ELIAS

Nowadays the importance of the breastfeeding has been emphasizing once the maternal milk is the best food of the nutritional point of view, it reinforces the baby’s immunological system and it can exercise an important preventive paper as to the myofuncional and orthodontics alterations. The present study had as objective to observe the preventive aspect of the natural breast-feeding related to the deleterious buccal habits and alterations in the estomatognatics functions and dental occlusion. With this objective they were appraised 180 childrens, of both sexes, in the age group of four to six years of age, registered in primary schools of the public net of Bauru. The results show that the natural breast-feeding prevents the occurrence of deleterious buccal habits, mainly with relationship to the pacifier suction; it decreases the incidence of alterations with relationship to the oral-motor test, but there is not relationship with the dental occlusion. With relationship to this last aspect, it was possible to observe that when present alterations in the articulation and swallowing happen an increase of alterations of the occlusion and vice-versa.

Keywords: Malocclusion. Oral myofuncional disorders. Oral habits deleterious.

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