Open AccessPoster 1: Rest position of the tongue in infants with and without lingual frenulum alteration
Author(s) -
Roberta Lopes de Castro Martinelli,
Irene Queiroz Marchesan,
Giédre Berretin-Felix
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the international journal of orofacial myology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2694-2526
pISSN - 0735-0120
DOI - 10.52010/ijom.2016.42.1.5
Subject(s) - tongue , rest (music) , chin , medicine , statistical analysis , orthodontics , dentistry , position (finance) , anatomy , mathematics , statistics , finance , pathology , economics , cardiology
Rest position of the infants' tongue with and without lingual frenulum alterationis poorly reported in the literature. The present study aims to verify the rest positionof the tongue in infants with and without lingual frenulum alteration. A cross-sectionalstudy was conducted with 324 infants. While the infant was sleeping, deep sleep, theSLP, facing the baby, opened the infant's mouth by pushing down the infant's chin withtheir thumbs, and at the same time, elevated the upper lip using their index fingers.The maneuver provided the visualization of the infant's tongue position at rest:elevated or down. The Chi-square test was used for statistical treatment of the data at5% level of significance (p<0.05). The variables included in the Chi-square analyseswere: a) tongue elevated, b) tongue down-positioned, c) normal lingual frenulum, and d)altered lingual frenulum. The statistical analysis demonstrated that there was anassociation between the tongue position at rest and the characteristics of the lingualfrenulum. When the lingual frenulum was altered, the infant's tongue rest positiontended to be down in the oral cavity (p<0.001). In infants with lingual frenulumalteration, the tongue at rest tended to be down-positioned, between the gum pads. Ininfants with normal lingual frenulum, the tongue at rest tended to be elevated.