What is it about?
This retrospective review supports our hypothesis that poor oral speech articulation is correlated with poor bolus manipulation in the mouth when eating. The lack of food preparation in the mouth and adequate posterior tongue thrust appears to reduce the triggers for a safe oropharyngeal swallow.
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Why is it important?
the clinical clue of poor speech should guide the clinician in looking further into to possibility of dysphagia and aspiration risk, which can have severe consequences (especially in patients with stroke and neurodegenerative disease like Parkinson's disease, ALS and multiple sclerosis)
Perspectives
While the oral phase is only the first step in swallowing once food goes in the mouth, it has the supreme role of triggering a safe swallow reflex.
Kenneth Altman
Baylor College of Medicine
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This page is a summary of: Relationship between Dysarthria and Oral-Oropharyngeal Dysphagia: The Current Evidence, Ear Nose & Throat Journal, March 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/014556131809700301.
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