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Effect of awareness through movement on the head posture of bruxist children
Author(s) -
QUINTERO Y.,
RESTREPO C.C.,
TAMAYO V.,
TAMAYO M.,
VÉLEZ A. L.,
GALLEGO G.,
PELÁEZVARGAS A.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of oral rehabilitation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.991
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-2842
pISSN - 0305-182X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2842.2008.01906.x
Subject(s) - medicine , randomized controlled trial , forward head posture , cephalogram , occlusion , physical therapy , physical medicine and rehabilitation , dentistry , malocclusion , surgery , overbite
Summary The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of physiotherapy to improve the head posture and reduce the signs of bruxism in a group of bruxist children. A single‐blind randomized clinical trial was performed. All the subjects were 3‐ to 6‐year old, had complete primary dentition, dental and skeletal class I occlusion and were classified as bruxist according to the minimal criteria of the ICSD for bruxism. For each child, a clinical, photographic and radiographic evaluation of the head and cervical posture were realized with standardized techniques. The children were randomized in an experimental ( n = 13) and a control ( n = 13) group. A physiotherapeutic intervention was applied to the children of the experimental group once a week, until 10 sessions were completed. Afterwards, the cephalogram and the clinical and photographic evaluation of the head posture were measured again. The data were analysed with the t ‐test and Mann–Whitney test. The subjects of the experimental group showed statistically significant improvement in the natural head posture. The physiotherapeutic intervention showed to be efficient to improve the head posture at the moment of measurement in the studied children. The relationship between bruxism and head posture, if exists, seems to be worthwhile to examine.