La succión digital como hábito que promueve la mal oclusión en pacientes pediátricos

Abstract

Pediatric patients are constantly developing and prone to alterations if there is any type of factor, either internal or external, that interrupts the normal growth of facedental structures. One of the factors is the presence of a habit such as digital suction, which is It demonstrates in the literature of studies carried out the different alterations that this causes in the pediatric patient, the aesthetic modifications, consequences and advantages of eliminating or not the habit of digital suction in time. Thus, the objective of this research project was to verify digital suction as a direct habit that promotes malocclusion in pediatric patients through a literature review; Being an analytical project, with documentary or bibliographic design, non-experimental transversal, digital suction is defined as a non-nutritive habit that leads to alterations that can be reversible when eliminated in time or irreversible by not eliminating this habit at the time. accurate. Among the most common alterations that this habit generates are named, open bite, cross bite, maxillary dental biprotrusion and protrusion of the upper incisors and dental retrusion of the lower incisors in addition to deep palate.