Swallowing recovery following anterior tongue and floor of mouth surgery

✍ Scribed by Dr. Sandra Hamlet; Dr. Lewis Jones; Dr. Robin Patterson; Dr. Gina Michou; Dr. Charlotte Cislo

• Book ID: 102848046
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 523 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1043-3074
• DOI: 10.1002/hed.2880130411

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Videofluoroscopic and clinical data are presented for postsurgical recovery of tongue and hyoid activity during swallowing. Comparison is made to normal controls. Postsurgery, but prior to radiotherapy, both the lingual propulsive gesture and hyoid velocity were slower than normal. These features of the swallow had returned to the normal range following radiotherapy. The general sequencing of swallowing events, and the relationship of the end of the tongue propulsion to anterior hyoid motion were normal in those patients able to swallow. In this patient group, postsurgical radiotherapy did not prevent continued recovery of swalloging function sufficient for oral nutrition.