Deglutitive tongue movement after correction of mandibular protrusion.
Conclusion: Our findings suggest that tongue-palate contact and tongue-tip position during deglutition adapted to the corrected oral and maxillofacial morphology, but the anterior and middorsal regions of the tongue during deglutition may have been affected by pharyngeal constrictors rather than by the oral and maxillofacial morphology.
PMID: 23289734 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Angle Orthodontist - Category: Dentistry Authors: Fujiki T, Deguchi T, Nagasaki T, Tanimoto K, Yamashiro T, Takano-Yamamoto T Tags: Angle Orthod Source Type: research
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