MORDIDA ABIERTA Y SU RELACIÓN CON LA RESPIRACIÓN BUCAL EN NIÑOS DE LA CLÍNICAS DE ORTOPEDIA II DE LA UNIVERSIDAD “JOSÉ ANTONIO PÁEZ” DURANTE EL PERÍODO JULIO 2011- MARZO 2012

Abstract

This research aimed to study the overall open bite and its relationship to oral breathing in children of Clinical Orthopedics II University José Antonio Páez, during the period July 2011 - March 2012. The same was framed within the type of descriptive correlational study with field mode and a cross-sectional design. The population for this research consisted of 136 children of both sexes, aged between 5 and 12 years. The instrument used consisted of the observations and analysis of medical records which were selected issues related to age, sex, origin, presence of open bite and bite type, being the results calculated by the technique of chi square. The results show that there is a prevalence of open bite in female patients of 10.29% while the male is 3.68% and about mouth breathing, 12.5% are girls and 15, 44% are located in males. They indicate that there is no correspondence between the pathology and the habit itself. In expressing the results of prevalence of anterior open bite is 24% and mouth-breathing children with 28%.