Alterações de esmalte em incisivos e primeiros molares permanentes em pacientes com fissura de lábio e/ou palato e sem fissura / Enamel alterations on the permanent maxillary and mandibular central incisors and first molars of patients with cleft lip and/or palate and without cleft

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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Objective: To record the enamel defects on permanent maxillary and mandibular central incisors and first molars of patients with cleft lip and/or palate and without cleft for detect the prevalence of the development of defects and their cleft relation. Design: Cross-sectional. Setting: Pediatric Dentistry sector, HRAC-USP and School-Agudos/SP. Participants: 100 patients registered at HRAC-USP, of which 50 with cleft lip and palate and 50 patients with cleft palate and 50 without cleft student at School-Agudos, of both genders, aged 6 to 12 years. Methods: The frequency, extent and location of enamel alterations on the buccal aspect of teeth were evaluated by the modified DDE index, after evaluation of intra-examiner agreement. Results: There was a higher demonstration of enamel defects in maxillary incisors and molars in group with cleft, with result statistically significant when was compared with group without cleft. The middle and cervical thirds of maxillary incisors on the group with complete cleft mainly of the teeth cleft side and incisal and middle thirds most affected in group cleft palate and group without cleft; the larger prevalence of enamel defects in mandibular incisors and maxillary molars was observed in three thirds of teeth and oclusal and middle thirds for mandibular molars the patients with cleft palate and cleft lip and palate. Enamel opacity was observed with greater prevalence in all studed groups. Conclusions: Results show that the occurrence of enamel defects is common in studed permanents incisor and molars and its association with cleft is an important clinical factor to be considered.

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defeitos de esmalte primeiros molares incisor cleft lip incisivo fenda labial fissura palatina molars cleft palate enamel defcts

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