Surgical Management of Drooling
- 1 September 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery
- Vol. 105 (9) , 535-537
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archotol.1979.00790210033007
Abstract
• The presence of drooling is an indication of an upset in the coordinated mechanism of facial, tongue, and palate muscles. This upset is particularly common in children with cerebral palsy. After extensive investigation and the establishment of the relative significance of the drooling and the degree of cerebral palsy, positive treatment with physiotherapy is then commenced. Those patients whose conditions fail to improve adequately with positive physiotherapy can be helped by staged surgery. Surgical treatment is carried out as a planned procedure. The submandibular ducts are transposed. Submucosal dissection and redirection of salivary flow from the submandibular glands excludes the necessity for extirpation of the salivary glands. (Arch Otolaryngol 105:535-537, 1979)This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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