To evaluate whether there is a relationship between occlusion and body posture as delineated by a stabilometric platform: A systematic review

ABSTRACT

Objective

To evaluate whether there is a relationship between occlusion and body posture evaluated using a stabilometric platform.

Methods

Observational studies that analyzed the relationship between dental occlusion (changes in mandibular position and/or dental malocclusion) and body posture evaluated with a stabilometric platform in patients older than 13 years without orthodontic or orthopedic intervention and systemically healthy were considered eligible for inclusion. PubMed, EMBASE, Science Direct, LILACS, and Google Scholar databases were searched to obtain articles published from September 2019 up to March 2020.

Results

Twelve articles met the inclusion criteria, of which 66.7% showed a relationship between dental occlusion and body posture, and 33.3% found no relationship. The marked heterogeneity between studies did not allow data to be combined for meta-analyses.

Conclusion

For the mandibular positions, the postural changes were mainly in the mediolateral direction, while in the malocclusions, they were in the anteroposterior direction.

KEYWORDS:

• Dental occlusion
• posture
• stabilometric platform
• mandibular position
• malocclusion
• systematic review

Disclosure statement

The authors report no conflict of interest related to this study.

Additional information

Funding

The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.