Open AccessProfile of Scientific Production on Ankyloglossia
Author(s) -
Roberta Lopes de Castro Martinelli,
Reinaldo Jordão Gusmão,
María Paz Moya Daza,
Irene Queiroz Marchesan,
Giédre Berretin-Felix
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of medical and surgical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0719-532X
pISSN - 0719-3904
DOI - 10.32457/ijmss.v8i1.592
Subject(s) - scientific literature , medicine , randomized controlled trial , bibliometrics , scientific evidence , family medicine , psychology , medical physics , surgery , computer science , library science , mathematics , statistics , paleontology , biology
This work aims to describe the profile of scientific production referring to ankyloglossia. For this an investigation was carried out by searching for scientific articles indexed in the electronic databases LILACS and PUBMED. For the bibliometric review, the data referring to the year of publication, type of study and level of evidence were examined and tabulated. The data were discussed on the quantitative and representative values optics. The first results allowed to analyzic 651 published studies were analyzed. Most of the research on tongue tie found correspond to descriptive studies and case series (49.31%), followed by case reports, in vitro research, in animals and literature review (24.27%), cohort and cases and controls (11.98%), specialist opinion (11.68%), randomized clinical trials (1.54%) and systematic reviews (1.22%). Few studies addressed complications during or after lingual frenulum release surgery. In conclusion Scientific production on ankyloglossia has shown an increasing increase in the last 28 years, with studies with evidence levels 1, 2 and 3 being published, whose main focus was the performance of surgery to release the lingual frenulum.