title: Prevalence of malocclusion in preschool and primary school children with habitual snoring and sleep-disordered breathing.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Our research aimed to find out whether it was possible to establish a correlation between instrumental  polysomnographic variables in children with Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB) and their clinical dentofacial records.
  
  
  METHODS
  197 children, 116 (59%) male and 81 (41%) female, age range 0 to 12 years, with a  clinical history highly suggestive for SDB were enrolled. All patients underwent full-night Poly-Mesam examination and a  specific clinical orthodontic evaluation. A comparison between polysomnographic variables and clinical orthodontic  variables was made.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  OSAS can not be diagnosed by the paediatric dentist only by  performing a single clinical orthodontic examination of oral cavity, but a polysomnography is essential and, if this should  point out any pathology referring to SDB, a cranial lateral cephalometry will then be required.
authors.affiliation: University of Insubria, School of Dentistry, Varese, Italy. alberto.caprioglio@uninsubria.it
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Caprioglio
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Levrini
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nosetti
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Berini
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Macchi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tagliabue
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tettamanti
mesh_terms: D002508:Cephalometry / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000150:complications*; D009058:Mouth Breathing / Q000209:etiology; D017286:Polysomnography; D020181:Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / Q000209:etiology*; D012913:Snoring / Q000209:etiology*