Orofacial anthropometric measures in full-term newborns.

Purpose: To describe and compare the anthropometric measurements and the orofacial proportions of healthy term newborns (NB) according to sex, from a public maternity hospital in the state of Sergipe, northeastern Brazil.

Methods: Descriptive and analytical randomized study was carried out. The participants included were 46 randomly selected healthy and full-term RNs of both sexes.

Proposal for facial type determination based on anthropometry.

Purpose: To describe orofacial indexes and proportions in adults, according to facial type and gender, and to verify the possibility to establish a way of classifying face based on anthropometry.

Methods: Participants were 105 leukoderm adults, 34 male (32.4%) and 71 female (67.

Quantitative evaluation of the orofacial morphology: anthropometric measurements in healthy and mouth-breathing children.

Unlabelled: The anthropometric orofacial measurements of mouth-breathing children were compared to those of children with no history of speech-language disorders, according to age.

Methods: 100 children participated, both males and females, with ages ranging from 7 to 11 years and 11 months, leukoderm, in mixed dentition period, with a mouth-breathing diagnosis. The control group was comprised of 254 children, of both sexes, with ages ranging from 7 to 11 years and 11 months, leukoderm, in mixed dentition period, with no history of speech-language disorders.

Anthropometric orofacial measurements of children from Sao Paulo and from North America: comparative study.

Background: Anthropometric orofacial measurements of children from Sao Paulo and from North America.

Aim: To describe the anthropometric orofacial measurements of children from Sao Paulo and to compare the obtained means to the North American norms.

Method: Participants were 254 children, leukoderm, in mixed dentition period, with ages ranging from 7 to 11 years and 11 months, with no history of speech, language and hearing disorders or treatment.

[Characteristics of the stomatognathic system of mouth breathing children: anthroposcopic approach].

Background: the use of anthroposcopy in the assessment of posture and morphology of the stomatognathic system of mouth breathing children.

Aim: to describe the postural and morphologic characteristics of the stomatognathic system of mouth breathing children, according to age.

Method: participants were 100 children, of both genders, with ages ranging from 7 to 11 years and 11 months, leukoderms, in mixed dentition and with the diagnosis of mouth breathing.

[Facial measurements and proportions in children: contributions to orofacial myofunctional evaluation].

Background: facial measurements and proportions are very important for the orofacial myofunctional evaluation.

Aim: to describe the facial measurements and proportions, according to age and gender.

Method: 254 children, with ages ranging between 7.

[Early weaning: implications to oral motor development].

Objective: This article aims at reviewing the relationship between early weaning and its consequences to oral motor development, focusing on the consequences to occlusion, breathing, and children's oral motor aspects.

Sources: A literature review based on Medline database from the early 60s up to 2001 was performed taking into consideration the following topics: pediatrics, dentistry and speech language pathology.

Summary Of The Findings: Based on this review of literature, we could verify that early weaning may lead to a proper oral motor development rupture, which may cause negative consequences to swallowing, breathing and speaking activities as well as malocclusion, oral breathing and oral motor disorders.