FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH SEPTAL DEVIATIONS IN SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN

A total of 687 school children between the ages of 6 and 15 years were examined for nasal septal deformities as part of a comprehensive epid emiological ENT study. Stepwise logistic regression analysis showed th at the occurrence of clinically significant septum deviation was assoc iated with age, sex, and dental malocclusion. The authors could not de monstrate any unambiguous correlation between respiratory symptoms or infections and nasal septal deformities, although there was a tendency for an increased frequency of infections in children with clinically significant septum deformity.