Estudo da prevalência e dos fatores etiológicos envolvidos com o hábito de bruxismo em crianças da clínica de odontopediatria da Faculdade de Odontologia Araçatuba - Unesp

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Amanda da Silva [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/149472; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/capelo/2017-01-27/000856742.pdf
• topic: Bruxismo; Criança; Epidemiologia; Bruxism

The prevalence and incidence of bruxism in children have been the subject of recent epidemiological studies compared to studies in adults, as well as factors involved in this parafunction. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of eccentric nocturnal bruxism (BEN); verify child's behavior, general health status; the occurrence of malocclusion and the presence of parafunctional habits. The results obtained showed a prevalence of 15% of children with the habit of bruxism, in line with the literature. The aspects orthodontic checked were not a factor responsible for the habit of bruxism and among the others parafunctional habits found, biting objects (33,82%), nail biting (33,82%) and lingual (48,52%) were the most often and 47% of children had more than one parafunctional habit beyond bruxism. In the psychological aspects, the anxiety in middle grade was observed in 59% of children, also emphasizing the presence of withdrawal, inadequacy and insecurity