Abstract
The aim of the study is to identify the dental somato-facial anomalies in young patients with early loss of temporary teeth, with the identification of crowding and other present clinical entities. The study was carried out on a working batch of 635 subjects who referred to the Pediatric Dentistry Clinic in Iasi and the private dental practice for various dental treatments, without any obvious dysfunctional subjective symptomatology. Out of 635 subjects,254 were female (40%) and 381 male patients (60%), distributed in the rural area (n=157; 24.7%) and urban area (n=478; 75.3%). By applying the selection criteria, the aim was to avoid issues of differential diagnosis with other disorders of the orofacial system. The mean age of the girls in the group was 8.26±1.840 years and the mean age of the boys was 8.77±1.856 years; the mean age of the rural children was 8.88±1.962 years, with an average of 8.46±1.823 years for the urban children. Dental malocclusions represent complex clinical entity, capable of producing functional, aesthetic and psychological disharmonies. Malocclusions can be caused by a combination of factors, in which the early loss of temporary teeth, the frequency of vicious habits, without excluding genetic determinism, are particularly important. The disorders that occur in the case of malocclusion may be aesthetic, masticatory, speech impairments, temporomandibular joint dysfunctions and social integration disorders.