title: [Effect of the early intervention of oral habits on the development of dental occlusion].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Sucking habits are related to malocclusion.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the effect of a counseling interview about inhibiting this oral habit and, its influence on dental occlusion and labial-lingual posture.
  
  
  METHODS
  40 children (mean age = three years), with a sucking habit and anterior open bite, received counseling aiming for the interruption of this habit. Measurements of the open bite were made, as well as a myofunctional evaluation, prior to counseling and, three and six months after it.
  
  
  RESULTS
  26 children stopped with the habit of sucking, with 25 children presenting a reduction of the open bite. No change was observed in labial-lingual posture.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The counseling interview favored the interruption of the oral habit and the correction of the open bite.
authors.affiliation: Especialista em Motricidade Oral pelo Curso de Fonoaudiologia da Universidade de Ribeirão Preto (UNAERP). adv.bertoldi@netsite.com.br
authors.forename: Patrícia Mendonça
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Bertoldi
authors.forename: Cláudia Maria de
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Felfício
authors.forename: Mírian Aiko Nakane
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
mesh_terms: D001903:Bottle Feeding; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003766:Dental Occlusion; D037001:Directive Counseling; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D024343:Open Bite / Q000517:prevention & control*; D041361:Pacifiers; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D013391:Sucking Behavior; D014061:Tongue Habits