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10.37988/1811-153X_2025_3_30

Analysis of the prevalence the infantile type of swallowing and its correlation with dental morphology in children with mixed dentition (literature review)

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  • M.A. Postnikov 1, Doctor of Science in Medicine, full professor of the Therapeutic dentistry Department
    ORCID: 0000-0002-2232-8870
  • N.V. Samoylova 2, PhD in Medical Sciences, associate professor of the Orthodontics Department
    ORCID: 0009-0005-3664-2341
  • M.M. Alekina 3, orthodontist at the children’s rehabilitation treatment center
    ORCID: 0009-0003-8438-6106
  • Z.H. Yakubova 4, PhD in Medical Sciences, Associate professor of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics
    ORCID: 0000-0001-6427-7680
  • 1 Samara State Medical University, 443001, Samara, Russia
  • 2 Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, 125993, Moscow, Russia
  • 3 Pediatric municipal clinical hospital, 125373, Moscow, Russia
  • 4 Avicenna Tajik State Medical University, 734064, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Abstract

The aim was to investigate the prevalence of the infantile type of swallowing in a school age children and adolescents, and its influence to formation and structure of malocclusions in mixed dentition. The analysis of the Russian and foreign sources on the given subject published during the recent years in the following bases: Researchgate, Semantic scholar, PubMed and eLibrary was conducted. In the Russian Federation and abroad, over the past decade, there has been no the tendency to decrease of the orofacial myofunctional disorders in children with mixed dentition, which leads to increase and changing in the expressiveness of malocclusions at sagittal, transverse and vertical planes in growing patients. However, the question remains open, if the tongue dysfunction would lead to malocclusions or, the opposite, it adapts to local changes in oral cavity.
Conclusion.
The lack of a decrease the prevalence of functional disorders in children’s dentofacial system provides a reason for creating a multidisciplinary protocol for the orthodontists and related specialists with the purpose to prevent development of the malocclusions and changing in their structure in growing patients.

Key words:

infantile swallowing, malocclusion, orthodontics, functional disorders, prevalence

For Citation

[1]
Postnikov M.A., Samoylova N.V., Alekina M.M., Yakubova Z.H. Analysis of the prevalence the infantile type of swallowing and its correlation with dental morphology in children with mixed dentition (literature review). Clinical Dentistry (Russia).  2025; 28 (3): 30—35. DOI: 10.37988/1811-153X_2025_3_30

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September 21, 2025