The effects of functional appliance therapy in the stomatognathic system on the muscosceletal system of children with dysgnathic disorders
Item
- Title
- The effects of functional appliance therapy in the stomatognathic system on the muscosceletal system of children with dysgnathic disorders
- Author(s)
- Frieß Gertrude Dipl
- Abstract
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There are varied interconnections within the body and there is a close fascial and neurophysiological interrelationship between the stomathognathic system and the musculoskeletal system. The purpose of my work was to show that dysfunctions in the stomatognathic system lead to changes outside of the stomatognathic system.
My thought was that the body posture, the mobility of the spine and the muscle length of kids who suffer from dysgnathic disorders should be influenced during the dental therapy with functional appliance therapy.
This study was carried out on ten patients, male and female, eight to fourteen years of age, presenting an Angle Class II division 1 malocclusion.
18 parameters were selected for the evaluation of the clinical functional status of the musculoskeletal system before the dental treatment began. The body posture, the mobility of the spine and the muscle length were examined.
Within a year after fitting a functional orthodontic appliance the clinical functional status of the musculoskeletal system was reevaluated using the same parameters and then compared to the former clinical functional status to see if there were any changes.
Correspondent to the representation of the stomatognathic system in the brain, my study confirms that malocclusion and its change can cause a multitude of dysfunctions in the body.
When comparing the two results it showed that through the effects on the stomathognathic system changes in body posture, spinal mobility and muscle length had occurred.
However, the examinations show that a correction of a dysfunction does not always lead to improvement of the evaluated parameters.
That means that corrections of a dysfunction in the stomatognatic system can lead to positive as well as negative changes.
These phenomena confirm the ascending and descending chains of dysfunctions as described in osteopathy.
According to this study, treatment of children with dysgnathic disorders with functional orthodontic appliances influences the function of the musculoskeletal system.
For achieving better results in the future it is necessary to consider the stomatognathic system as part of the entire organism and it is therefore essential that the therapy plan includes an osteopath in addition to an orthodontist. - presented at
- Wiener Schule für Osteopathie
- Date Accepted
- 0
- Date Submitted
- 1.1.2007 00:00:00
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 12285
- Inst-Identifier
- 781
- Keywords
- Children
- Recommended
- 0
- Medium
- MasterThesisenglisch.pdf
- Item sets
- Thesis
- Media
- MasterThesisenglisch.pdf
Frieß Gertrude Dipl, “The effects of functional appliance therapy in the stomatognathic system on the muscosceletal system of children with dysgnathic disorders”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed April 20, 2024, https://www.osteopathic-research.com/s/orw/item/3078