Obstructive sleep apnea prevents the expected difference in craniofacial growth of boys and girls

Maria Ligia Juliano, Marco Antônio Cardoso Machado, Luciane Bizari Coin de Carvalho, Gianni Mara Silva dos Santos, Edilson Zancanella, Lucila Bizari Fernandes do Prado, Gilmar Fernandes do Prado

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria · 2013 · 29 citations · 26 references

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Abstract

There were no cephalometric difference in mouth breather-boys and girls related to normal growth, suggesting that oral breathing make the same craniofacial morphology and both have craniofacial morphology close to that of OSAS patients.

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