HUBUNGAN ANTARA BAD ORAL HABIT ANAK DENGAN KETERLAMBATAN TUMBUH KEMBANG GIGI PERMANEN AWAL MASA GIGI BERCAMPUR
Abstract
Growth and Development of children’s teeth can be affected by several
factors. The one of them is bad oral habit. If this habit is not controlled and
continuous do so it will affect the growth and developments of the jaw and the
teeth especially at the time of the eruption of the teeth. The purpose of this
research is to identify relationship between children’s bad oral habit and delayed
growth and development of permanent teeth in early mixed dentition period.
The research design was the analytical study with cross-sectional
approach. This research was conducted on children with age 7-9 years old in
Karang Jati State Elementary School in August 2017 with 115 respondents of the
total sample. The sampling technique was total sampling. The respondents were
examined their oral cavity to see the clinical features of the effect of each bad oral
habit (thumb sucking, nails biting, and mouth breathing) and the eruption of
permanent teeth. The data were analyzed by chi-square and correlation
coefficient contingency to find out the relationship between children’s bad oral
habit and delayed growth and development of permanent teeth in early mixed
dentition period.
The result of the statistic showed that the p-value test = 0,004 (p<0,05),
this result indicated that there was a relationship between children’s bad oral
habit and delayed growth and development of permanent teeth in early mixed
dentition period. Value of X2 = 0,262 indicated that the relationship between
variables have a weak strength.
The conclusion showed that there was a relationship between children’s
bad oral habit and delayed growth and development of permanent teeth in early
mixed dentition period.