Abstract
The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of oral functions and oral conditions in children and adolescents with overweight or obesity, investigating possible associations with treatment for weight reduction. Developing a cross-sectional research and quantitative approach with inductive and descriptive and critical analysis of data, such as from a range of 95%, the universe was represented by children and adolescents who were overweight or obese, in both sexes, treated at reference centers for the treatment of obesity by the National Health System, in Campina Grande, Paraiba, 2010-2012. As the control group considered subjects of the same age, in the process of screening for attention in the places listed, but without the condition of overweight or obese, the research was started after the approval by the Ethics Resarch Committee of the UEPB under the protocol number 0513.0.133.000-09. As instruments for data collection were used in the questionnaire and clinical examination, of the 70 surveyed, most were female, ranging in age from 3 to 17 years, overweight, without comorbidities and carriers of deleterious oral habits; especially the nail biting, significantly associated with female sex p < 0.05. Consistency was the preferred food paste and chewing quickly, unilaterally, without discomfort or gagging constant. There was a significant difference between the values of the DMFT index, the presence of visible biofilm and the frequency of halitosis, for groups with overweight or obesity, with association between time of treatment and medications.
Highlights
Obesity is a serious public health problem worldwide due to the increase in its incidence and prevalence rates, the notorious impairment of a population increasingly young and possible implications on life quality of affected individuals and their care needs.Brazil is passing through the nutritional transition period, where malnutrition is giving way to overweight and obesity as a nutritional disorder is most prevalent in virtually all strata of population; evidencing polarization in regions with high poverty levels, such as the northeast of the country [1].This situation is characterized by abnormal accumulation of body fat compared with body size
The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of oral functions and oral conditions in children and adolescents with overweight or obesity, investigating possible associations with treatment for weight reduction
There was a significant difference between the values of the DMFT index, the presence of visible biofilm and the frequency of halitosis, for groups with overweight or obesity, with association between time of treatment and medications
Summary
Obesity is a serious public health problem worldwide due to the increase in its incidence and prevalence rates, the notorious impairment of a population increasingly young ( juvenile) and possible implications on life quality of affected individuals and their care needs.Brazil is passing through the nutritional transition period, where malnutrition is giving way to overweight and obesity as a nutritional disorder is most prevalent in virtually all strata of population; evidencing polarization in regions with high poverty levels, such as the northeast of the country [1].This situation is characterized by abnormal accumulation of body fat compared with body size. Brazil is passing through the nutritional transition period, where malnutrition is giving way to overweight and obesity as a nutritional disorder is most prevalent in virtually all strata of population; evidencing polarization in regions with high poverty levels, such as the northeast of the country [1]. The Body Mass Index or BMI (kg/m2) is overall used for the body weight assessment. This should be linked to other parameters in order to identify the risk conditions to health, in children and adolescents. The levels related to the problem vary from the overweight or pre-obesity, with BMI between 25 and 29.9, obesity class I from 30 to 34.9, obesity class II from 35 to 39.9 and obesity class III, called morbid obesity over 40 [2]
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