Estudo da prevalência de bruxismo e avaliação de saúde bucal em pacientes com paralisia cerebral

Cerebral palsy is the result of an injury or poor brain development, not progressive in nature, existing since childhood. The lesion that affects the brain, where it is still immature, interferes with normal motor development of children, resulting mainly in a delay or an arrest of development and injury caused often by lack of oxygen to brain cells. The aim of this study was to investigate the bruxism prevalence and to evaluate the oral health of patients with cerebral palsy who attend the clinic patients with special needs, School of Dentistry at Unoeste. Through history and physical examination bucco-dental, we observed the characteristics of the stomatognathic system of dental patients. The sample consisted of 27 patients with cerebral palsy. The methodology used in the study using data collected by clinical examination and recorded on standardized charts in systematized form, after the expiry of consent has been signed by their guardians. The results were: the use of anticonvulsant medication in 81.5% of the patients, 66.6% of patients have had seizures and are controlled, the badly occlusion is present in 88.8% of the patients, dental fractures were observed in 33.3%, gingival hyperplasia in 66.6%, enamel hypoplasia in 29.6% and bruxism in 74.7% of the patients. Through the data obtained we concluded that efforts should be made to enable health professionals to care for patients with cerebral palsy