Evaluation of Oral Needs of Children With Disorder Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

University Hospital, Strasbourg, France

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Attention Deficit Disorder With Hyperactivity

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01106768

2008-A00616-49

Details and patient eligibility

About

There is little accurate data in the literature at present on oral problems of hyperactive children, especially regarding care needs that would justify an assumption oral specific. The purpose of this study is therefore to have accurate data regarding the risk of caries, other oral diseases like periodontal disease, trauma, and assess the needs dental care and problems in cooperation for dental care in a population of children and adolescents with hyperactivity disorder with attention deficit. Finally, it has recently been described as the sleep disordered breathing was not uncommon in disorder attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, whether snoring and/or apnea. But it is now accepted that some features of facial morphology favoring pharyngeal congestion occur in individuals with obstructive sleep apnea (hyperdivergent typology with increased anterior facial height and decreased posterior facial height, becoming the facial retrognathia, pharyngeal congestion, elongation and thickening of the soft palate, low position of the hyoid bone). A cephalometric analysis of craniofacial architecture and relationships with the soft tissue surrounding skeletal structures will detect if any of these specific characteristics that could promote sleep disordered breathing are found in disorder attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder prevalence with a particular.

Enrollment

140 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

5 to 15 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Consent signed by parents before the examination
With of a social security scheme
Age greater than or equal to 5 years and less than 15 years, Children with a diagnosis of attention deficit / hyperactivity confirmed or made by a physician specialists co-investigators of the study, diagnosis defined according to precise criteria for a disorder attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder as specified in DSM-IV with a normal IQ, ie higher than 80, and without other neurological or psychiatric
Child consultant in a hospital or doctors' offices

Exclusion criteria

Refusal of consent of the parents
No affiliation to a social security scheme
Age below 5 years or more than 15 years
Diagnosis of a disorder attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder not confirmed by a physician , IQ <80, Pathology associated neurological or psychiatric