Hábitos relacionados à saúde bucal em crianças nascidas prematuras: uma preocupação para equipes multiprofissionais de saúde
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2013-09
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Aim: This study aimed to identify dietary
habits, non-nutritive sucking habits, and oral hygiene
habits in the first three years of pre-term children.
Materials and Methods: This work consists of an
observational, retrospective, descriptive study in
which secondary data were collected from the clinical
records of 109 children attended to at the Dental Clinic
for Pre-term Children at the University Hospital of the
Federal University of Goias (UFG), from February
2011 to July 2012. This study considered information
regarding the child’s first dental visit: the child’s
current age, gender, gestational age, dietary habits
(natural breast-feeding, bottle feeding, extrinsic sugar
consumption), non-nutritive sucking habits (sucking a
pacifier and finger sucking), and oral hygiene habits. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics using
the IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
(SPSS®), version 20.0. Results: In the first dental
visit, the pre-term children were from 1 to 33 months
old (8.6±7,2), with 49 (45.0%) girls and 60 (55.0%)
boys. The occurrence of natural breastfeeding in
children under 6 months of age was 22.8%, with a
predominance of mixed bottle-breastfeeding (45.6%).
Of the total number of pre-term children, 79.8%
were bottle-fed and 58.7% used pacifiers. Mothers
of 73.4% of these children performed their oral
hygiene, while 44.4% used only a soft cloth diaper to
perform oral hygiene. Conclusions: The percentage
of exclusive breastfeeding was low. The majority of
children presented some type of non-nutritive sucking
habit. Most of the children received unsatisfactory
oral hygiene. Thus, the establishment of educational-
preventive programs are essential in an attempt to
provide support to the family regarding their babies’
oral hygiene, geared toward the promotion of oral
healthcare and the prevention of changes in the child’s
stomatognathic system.
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Nascimento prematuro, Saúde bucal, Hábitos, Premature birth, Oral health, Habits
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VIANA, Karolline Alves et al. Hábitos relacionados à saúde bucal em crianças nascidas prematuras: uma preocupação para equipes multiprofissionais de saúde. Arquivos em Odontologia, Belo Horizonte, v. 49, n. 3, p. 140-146, jul./set. 2013.