Maria Beatriz Duarte Gavião

• Abstract

  This project was elaborated into two sections aiming to expand the interchange among disciplines / areas such as Psychology, Physiology, Fonoaudiology and Dentistry. As a whole the research problem is: How patients, professionals and dental students deal with aversive events involved with promotion, prevention and treatment health and how these events may be related with pain, fear, anxi…

  Oral health and behavior: interdisciplinary perspectives and emotional aspects in the health-disease process, AP.TEM

• Abstract

  This study will determine whether there is an association between chewing function, flow, pH, and salivary composition, nutrition, anthropometry, and halitosis in 200 young adults aged 17 to 30 years, of both genders. For chewing, the following variables are evaluated: (1) masticatory performance to be determined by individual capacity of fragmented material test chewable Optocal plus and…

  Masticatory evaluation, salivary, nutritional, anthropometry and halitosis in young adults, AP.R

• Abstract

  The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of acupuncture and electroacupuncture on the treatment of the upper trapezius myofascial pain and to investigate the relationship between body posture and head and neck pain of sixty volunteers aged between 18 and 40 years, BMI= 18 to 24 Kg/m2, regular menstrual cycle, presenting at least one trigger point at the upper trapezius and local or…

  Evaluation of acupuncture and electroacupuncture on the treatment of the upper trapezius myofascial pain - a double blinded randomized placebo controlled study, AP.R

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• Abstract

  The objective of this project is to evaluate the eating behavior in preschool and quantify the salivary ghrelin and leptin levels, verifying the possible relationships with nutritional state. At leats 60 children aged 3-5 years will be selected from preschools of Piracicaba, SP, Brazil and their parents/caregivers. The eating behavior will be evaluated using the Brazilian version of Child…

  Feeding behavior and salivary biomarkes of apetite-saciety in preschool children, BP.IC

• Abstract

  The aim of this study will be to evaluate the impact of Atraumatic Restauration Treatment (ART) associated with two oral health educational strategies on oral health related to quality of life (OHRQoL) among school children. 215 children will be selected, aged six and seven years old, both gender, from Public Elementary School in Piracicaba, São Paulo. The children will be grouped in five…

  Impact of atraumatic restorative treatment associated with oral health educational strategies on oral health related quality of life in schoolchildren, BP.MS

• Abstract

  The dentofacial deformity (DDF) is to change the hard and soft tissues that can result from genetic or environmental influence. The orthognathic surgery provides the correction of DDF and importance is given not only by correction of occlusion and functionality, but also for the improvement of facial aesthetics. The electromyographic evaluation before and after surgery makes it possible t…

  Electromyography of masticatory muscles in patients undergoing orthognathic surgery, BP.IC

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)