摘要：Society nowadays is governed by important principles like performance,
esthetic requirements that are aspects based on self esteem, a real parameter
resulting from harmonious somatic development, where the oral-maxillofacial fi eld
has a distinct signifi cance. Any impediment in the child’s and adolescent’s ways
of communication corroborated with the intraoral status and the personality type,
ultimately aff ects the child’s and adolescent’s social insertion, setting the path for
the future adult’s behavior and their academic and future professional performance.
The research study included the correlation of incidence and prevalence of
speech disorders with the defects of the frontal area represented by edentation
or carious lesions, determining the impact on the personality development and
social insertion. The speech disorders were detected through specifi c tests. The
infl uence on personality development for this group of patients was assessed using
questionnaires: the 16PF personality test (Cattell & Kline, 1977) with dichotomous
questions, the personality test “Star of Self-esteem” with open questions and a
test of psycho-sociological nature. Speech impediments correlated with frontal
edentation, as a defect, abnormality in basic teeth structure, intervene in the
natural process of formation and crystallization of self-esteem, causing negative
thoughts regarding own self and own development abilities. On behavioral level,
these negative thoughts turn into ways of hiding the defect by covering the mouth with the hand, speaking with lips tight or facing downwards, avoiding eye contact,
sometimes in a low voice or even turning the head away while speaking, going as
far as refusing to talk to someone.
关键词：speech disorders; social insertion; children; adolescents.
