PURPOSE:
Characterize the deleterious oral habits since of questionnaires answered by the parents / tutors of children with aged from three to five years, from a public schools of Sao Paulo city.
METHODS:
The tutors received the questionnaires and Consent form. The period of a week was established for they could return them duly completed. 290 questionnaires were sent to parents / tutors of all preschool children in a Municipal Preschool. The Inclusion criterion was: voluntary participation, after reading and signing the informed consent form (ICF) by the parents or tutors of children with aged between three and five years. The exclusion criterion was, not fill duly the oral habits questionnaire. After the established period, we obtained the return of 120 questionnaires, of which 13 were disregarded under the exclusion factor, so 107 questionnaires were selected, with this, the total number of the sample.
RESULTS
: noting the results it was observed that the habit with higher occurrence was mouth breathing, present in 48.60% of the sample, and the habit cited with less frequent was lip suction, present in only 3.70% of the sample. Statistical results showed that the vast majority of parents indicated that children don't have deleterious.
CONCLUSION:
the most habits found in the group with aged from three to five years were: mouth breathing, use of bottle, nail biting, onychophagy, bruxism and object biting.
Suction; Nail Biting; Breastfeeding; Pacifiers; Child Day Care Centers
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