Efeito da terapia miofuncional rápida (oito sessões) em sujeitos com respiração oral

Abstract

It is known that patients with oral breathing, usually, are attempted by various stomatognathic system alterations like, the swallowing, the sucking, the chewing and the speech articulation, besides the breathing. According to these alterations, was proposed a model of fast miofunctional therapy that could involve a work that treats all the alterated functions in these kind of patients. Then a group of five individuals was selected , both gender, with ages between 11 years and three months and 12 years and five months, with previous otorhinolaryngologic diagnosis of oral breathing predominancy and others breathing problems. The exclusion rules for this study were chronic nasal obstruction, occlusion problems like open bite, lateral open bite, cross bite and lateral cross bite, overjet over 4 mm and neurological problems. The procedures of this research were done at Phonoaudiologic Attendance Service of University Federal of Santa Maria. The individuals were directed to Phonoaudiologic and orthodontic evaluation and reevaluation and had taken some photos. The results showed that the miofunctional therapy that was proposed was effective for the improvement of the functions that were treated in the five individuals with oral breathing and in the orofacial structures avaluated occurred 100% of benefit in the labial profile, tongue position, superior tonus labial, the left cheek tonus, tongue mobility and in the labial length, 80% of improvement in the inferior tonus labial and 60% of improvement in the right cheek tonus. In relation to the stomatognathic functions had 100% improvement in the sucking and chewing, 80% of improvement in the breathing and swallowing functions. As for the dental occlusion didn´t happen any change in the structures evaluated. This result was expected because in this propose of miofunctional therapy was only boarded the functionals and muscles standards modifications.