%0 Journal Article
%T Prevalencia de h¨¢bitos bucales parafuncionales en ni£¿os de edad preescolar en Ciudad Nezahualc¨®yotl, Estado de M¨¦xico, 2009
%A Murrieta-Pruneda
%A Jos¨¦ Francisco
%A Allendelagua Bello
%A Reyna Isabel
%A P¨¦rez Silva
%A Luis Enrique
%A Ju¨¢rez-L¨®pez
%A Lilia Adriana
%A Linares Vieyra
%A Celia
%A Mel¨¦ndez Ocampo
%A Arcelia Felicitas
%A Zurita Murillo
%A Violeta
%A Solleiro Rebolledo
%A Mar¨ªa Guadalupe
%J Bolet¨ªn m¨¦dico del Hospital Infantil de M¨¦xico
%D 2011
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X background. a habit is any activity done regularly and unconsciously, which is acquired by experience. non-nutritive buccal habits are important because they can interfere with the development of dental occlusion. the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of non-eating buccal habits in a group of preschool children. methods. an epidemiological, cross-sectional and descriptive study to evaluate the clinical signs of non-nutritive buccal habits was performed by one previously calibrated examiner (intra-examiner kappa = 0.95). a questionnaire was completed for 211 preschool children from the information obtained in two stages: 1) parents of the children completed a questionnaire, and 2) the clinical evaluation of the children was registered by the examiner. results. of the studied population, 68.2% showed at least one non-nutritive buccal habit. onychophagia was the habit with the highest prevalence. the relationship between age and prevalence of non-nutritive buccal habits was statistically significant, whereas gender was not statistically significant. conclusions. there was a high prevalence of non-nutritive buccal habits not associated with the age of the child.
%K preschool children
%K prevalence
%K dental occlusion
%K non-nutritive buccal habits.
%U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1665-11462011000100004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en