The effects of maxillary anterior sextant periodontal surgery on speech intelligibility
Date
1983
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Munns, Peter M.
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OA Version
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Abstract
Patients undergoing periodontal surgical procedures for pocket elimination in the maxillary anterior sextant often complain of an altered speech pattern directly following surgery. Changes in palatal configuration and embrasure space relative to the maxillary anterior teeth may result in a loss of speech intelligibility. With time and adaptation the loss of intelligibility may be restored through neuromuscular compensation of the tongue.
Since there is no evidence in the literature concerning the effects of periodontal surgery on speech intelligibility the following investigation was undertaken to ascertain whether there was a relationship between periodontal surgery in the maxillary anterior sextant and a loss of speech intelligibility and further to see how predictable recovery from such a loss might be.
Six patients aged 19 to 47 years, of both sexes, who were undergoing periodontal surgery in the maxillary anterior sextant at the School of Graduate Dentistry recorded a 50 monosyllabic word list half an hour prior to surgery and at week one, two, four and six post surgically. A t-test for small samples was applied with the statistical significance of the intelligibility scores varying from not significant to 0.001. The greatest statistical significance was between week 1 and week 6.
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Thesis (M.Sc.D.)--Boston University, Henry M. Goldman School of Graduate Dentistry, 1978 (Periodontology)
Bibliography: leaves 23-24.
Thesis (M.Sc.D.)--Boston University, Henry M. Goldman School of Graduate Dentistry, 1978 (Periodontology)
Bibliography: leaves 23-24.
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