Identificação de fatores relevantes associados ao diagnóstico precoce da má oclusão dentária junto a especialistas em ortodontia

• Ano de defesa: 2021
• Autor(a) principal: Gaião, Muramí Aparecida Graciano de Souza
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Positivo; Brasil; Odontologia; PPG1; UP
• Palavras-chave em Português: Odontologia; Diagnóstico precoce; Má oclusão; Protocolos; Ortodontia; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ODONTOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.cruzeirodosul.edu.br/handle/123456789/4089

Malocclusion occupies the third place of oral diseases in the world context, deserves a careful look on the part of professionals who accompany an individual throughout his childhood. Thus, the aim of this research was to identify, together with specialists in Orthodontics, the most relevant factors associated with malocclusion, in order to develop, in the future, a practical illustraded guide for the early identification of dental malocclusion for professional general dental surgeons, as an auxiliary preventive tool. To this end, two phases were proposed: the first with an extensive literature review regarding the etiological factors and clinical characteristics of malocclusions that supported the preparation of an applied questionnaire; in the second phase, with orthodontists to assign values about the importance of these factors for the elaboration of the so-called Nuclei of Occlusal Changes (NOC). The initial phase took place by consulting the PubMed, Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (Virtual Health Library), and gray literature databases (Google Scholar). In the second phase, 35 orthodontists, from the State of Paraná, participated, and a form (Google® forms) was sent by electronic mail, containing 70 criteria that included: demographic and socioeconomic factors, behavioral factors, clinical factors, hereditary factors systemic and parameter setting. The respondent should choose the level of importance from 0 to 4, where 0 indicates not relevant and 4 indicates very relevant for each of these listed criteria. The data were tabulated and analyzed using SPSS® software, version 21.0. The respondents had a mean age of 43.1 years (± 7.75), an average time of graduation of 20 years (± 7.78) and an average time of experience in the specialty of 14.5 years (± 7.80). From then on, the frequencies were placed in decreasing order. Then, a selection of those with 50% or more frequency in the “very relevant” category were separated to NOC based on the grouping of criteria in: NOC 1 - Anterior open bite; NOC 2 - Anterior crossbite; NOC 3 - Posterior crossbite; NOC 4 - Deep bite; NOC 5 – Dental crowding; and NOC 6 - Class II malocclusion. With the development of this research, the frequency of the studied criteria reported by the specialists was observed, which will support the development of a guide for early recognition of occlusal changes for the interception of future malocclusions.