Mouth breathing and dentocraniofacial changes in children

Breathing is a vital process for the human body that occurs normally through nose. One of most common oral habits in children mouth breathing. Mouthbreathing respiratory dysfunction affects approximately 10-15% pediatric po-pulation. The etiology multifactorial, with cause obstruction nasopharynx. Mouth breathing has wide-ranging consequences and involves different areas body, including mouth, craniofacial development, upper lower airway. This paper aimed to determine impact on dentocraniofacial changes children; using literaturestudy by collecting sources relevant topic, processing data matrix method, synthesizing infor-mation from journals are used as references. It was concluded habit population have an changes.