Mouth breathing, occlusion, and modernization in a north Indian population. An epidemiologic study.
Village-dwelling Punjabi youths show significantly better dental occlusion and less chronic respiratory allergy than their city-dwelling counterparts. Field diagnosis finds posterior crossbite the only occlusal condition correlated with mouth breathing in the samples studied.
D000069:Acculturation; D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009058:Mouth Breathing / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012130:Respiratory Hypersensitivity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D012424:Rural Population; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization