Avaliação de bebês portadores de fissura labiopalatina em relação à higiene oral

The study evaluated the caries prevalence related to the lack of oral hygiene in babies aged 6 to 36 months, with cleft lip and/or palate. Those children were treated in the Ambulatory of the Discipline of Bucco-Maxillo-Facial Prostheses, from the Department of Surgery, Prostheses and Maxillo-Facials Traumatology of the FOUSP. Before the clinical exam, prophylaxis was done to increase reliability of the visual and tactile inspection under artificial light. Were selected 143 children regardless of gender, distributed into 5 age groups: 06-12; 13-18; 19-24; 25-30 e 31-36 months old. The statistical analysis used the Q-Square-Test, adjusted by the Fischer’s Statistic. The analysis of the lack of oral hygiene correlated with the caries experience was not statistically significant (p=0,626). When the prevalence of caries was evaluated front to the increase of the age and the lack of oral hygiene, a statistical significant association was found (p