Assessment of aesthetic and functional complaints in patients with dentofacial deformities

Dario Ravazzi AMBRIZZI, Sergio Altino FRANZI, Valfrido Antonio PEREIRA FILHO, Marisa Aparecida Cabrini GABRIELLI, Carla Maria Melleiro GIMENEZ, Francisco A. BERTOZ

Aim: To assess the complaints referred by patients with dentofacial deformities as motivation for seeking orthodontic-surgical treatment. Methods: Were examinated 130 handbook of patients submited to surgical-orthodonthic treatment in CEDEFACE – Araraquara, with a post surgical period of 6 months and middle age of 30.9 years old. The deformities types’ classification was done by telerradiography and photography analysis, subdivided in 3 groups according to its facial profiles carachteristics. The informations relative to complaints were obtained by questionnaire and subdivided in two categories: principal complaints and secundary complaints. To statistical analysis, central tendency measures were used and the variability measures to describe the numeric variables of age. The categoric variables of genders, dentofacial deformities and complaints were described by frequency distribution, with significance level of 5%. Results: There was a predominance of females, in 2:1 proportion, and in the majority of the cases the deformities needed treatment only in the mandible or only in the maxilla. The convex profile was predominant in females (46%) and the concave profile was most frequent in males (48.8%). The principal complaints shows that the esthetical desire was predominant in males and females. Conclusion: The desire of esthetical improvement was predominant in both genders, and the majority of the sample showed additional desire to functional improvement. Orofacial pain was the second more related complaint, observed in half of the sample.

Keywords: Dentofacial deformities. Orthognathic surgery. Treatment. Diagnosis. Complaints.

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