Tratamiento de la onicofagia en niños. Revisión sistemática

Claudia Cecilia  Restrepo Serna

doi:10.47990/alop.v1i1.111

Authors

Claudia Cecilia Restrepo Serna

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47990/alop.v1i1.111

Keywords:

children, onychophagia, treatment, psychological therapy, intraoral devices

Abstract

Purpose: To conduct a systematic review to assess and analyze the scientific evidence about the available therapies for finger and nail biting in children. Materials and Methods: The literature was searched using Medline, Pubmed, ovid, EBSCO, ISI, Cochrane Library, Lylacs, Scielo, Scirus and the Internet, published from March 1985 to 2008. The inclusion criteria were: Investigations that treated finger or nail biting with any resource.. The investigations were required to be clinical trials or well done comparative studies. Metanalysis or multicenter studies were considered as well. The children included in the studies required not to have had other type of oral habits and /or neurological diseases and the diagnosis of or nail biting should be performed with anamnesis and other diagnostic tools. Results: From 92 records found, one fulfilled the inclusion criteria. It supports the psychological techniques to treat nail biting in children and do not support intraoral devices or pharmacology with the same objective. Conclusion: Although the selected study accomplished the quality criteria, it is not enough to affirm that treatment of nail biting in children is well supported. Treatment for nailbiting of onycophagia requires further studies.

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