Renata Maria Moreira Moraes Furlan, Amanda Freitas Valenti, Tatiana Vargas de Castro Perilo, Cláudio Gomes da Costa, Márcio Falcão Santos Barroso, Estevam Barbosa de Las Casas, Andréa Rodrigues Motta
The tongue plays an important role in the functions of speech, mastication, swallowing, and breathing. The tongue helps in the maintenance of proper dental alignment and arch stability. Adequate strength is essential for the tongue to perform these tasks. Recently the Biomechanical Engineering Group from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, developed a device to improve tongue strength evaluation. The purpose of this study is to describe and compare the main results obtained in tongue protrusion force measurements in different age groups using this new device...
November 2010: International Journal of Orofacial Myology