Pereira Tiago Costa, Furlan Renata Maria Moreira Moraes, Motta Andréa Rodrigues
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG - Belo Horizonte (MG), Brasil.
Centro Universitário Metodista Izabela Hendrix - Belo Horizonte (MG), Brasil.
Codas. 2019 Apr 1;31(2):e20180099. doi: 10.1590/2317-1782/20182018099.
To verify the relationship between maximum tongue pressure and the etiology of oral breathing in oral breathing children attended at the Oral Respiratory Outpatient Clinic.
A descriptive and analytical cross-sectional study was accomplished with 59 mouth breathing children aged 3 to 12 years (mean age 6.5 years and SD: standard deviation= 2.4). To collect tongue pressure, the Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI) was used and data regarding the etiology of oral breathing and dental occlusion were collected in the records of these patients for analysis. The associations between the maximum tongue pressure and the etiology of oral breathing, age, gender and dental occlusion were verified by the T test, ANOVA, Spearman's coefficient and Tuckey's test, using a significance level of 5%.
There was a moderate and positive correlation between age and maximum pressure, it was verified that there was a statistically significant difference between the maximum tongue pressure and the variables pharyngeal tonsil hypertrophy and palatine tonsil hypertrophy. There were no statistical differences between the other variables.
It was concluded that mechanical obstructions, among them the pharyngeal and palatine tonsil hypertrophy alter the maximum tongue pressure in oral breathing children.
验证在口腔呼吸门诊就诊的口腔呼吸儿童中，最大舌压与口腔呼吸病因之间的关系。
对59名3至12岁的口呼吸儿童（平均年龄6.5岁，标准差：SD = 2.4）进行了描述性和分析性横断面研究。使用爱荷华口腔功能仪器（IOPI）收集舌压，并在这些患者的记录中收集有关口腔呼吸病因和牙合的数据进行分析。采用T检验、方差分析、Spearman系数和Tuckey检验，以5%的显著性水平验证最大舌压与口腔呼吸病因、年龄、性别和牙合之间的关联。
年龄与最大压力之间存在中度正相关，证实最大舌压与咽扁桃体肥大和腭扁桃体肥大变量之间存在统计学显著差异。其他变量之间无统计学差异。
得出的结论是，机械性梗阻，其中包括咽扁桃体和腭扁桃体肥大，会改变口腔呼吸儿童的最大舌压。
