Vantagens do aleitamento materno para o desenvolvimento do sistema estomatognático

Abstract

Knowing the correlation between breastfeeding and the acquisition of deleterious habits not as decisive factor for the correct development of structural and functional properties of bone and muscular tissues and other orofacial structures (stomatognathic system), became interested in the present study investigating how that knowledge is addressed in the literature when it comes to health promotion for pregnant women, especially in the specialized literature in public health. Dentistry has emphasized the strong correlation between the presence of oral habits and bottle feeding, thus becoming one of the etiologic factors of dental malocclusion, once considered public health problems. The need for integration of this knowledge and its aftermath on the preventive aspects of breastfeeding is necessary. However, it was observed that the literature of public health aim of the study was ineffective in spreading the correlation between breastfeeding and oral facial development, and information related to oral health in general. Therefore, it is expected that greater emphasis be given to the importance of breastfeeding for orofacial development and other aspects of oral health for the whole team of public health through scientific means of collective health, to allow the practice of encouraging breastfeeding has the purpose to reduce the incidence of malocclusion for children and adults.