BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Children with ankyloglossia, an abnormally short, thickened, or tight lingual frenulum, may have restricted tongue mobility and sequelae, such as speech and feeding difficulties and social concerns. We systematically reviewed literature on feeding, speech, and social outcomes of treatments for infants and children with ankyloglossia. METHODS Medline, PsycINFO, Cumulat...

BACKGROUND The orofacial musculature plays a pivotal role in maintaining a balance in positioning of the teeth and any imbalance which occurs in this , results in malocclusion. Lingual frenum is a soft tissue structure which tethers the ventral surface of the tongue to the floor of the mouth. OBJECTIVE This study was performed to analyze the lingual frenal lengths in skeletal class I, class I...

A 62-year-old woman presented with complaints of asymptomatic tortuous purplish to black swellings on the undersurface of the tongue for 8 months (Figure 1). She first noticed a few red to purple small outpouching of the veins on the undersurface of tongue. The lesion has increased progressively in due course of time. On mucosal examination, dilated tortuous vessels were seen along the lateral ...

OBJECTIVE As a consequence of the discussion on whether the health benefits of newborn male circumcision outweigh the risks and the discrepancies in reported figures of complications, we evaluated the incidence and morbidity of foreskin surgery due to medical indications in boys from the Capital Region of Denmark in 2014. METHODS Medical records from all boys operated on the foreskin due to m...

The labial frenulum, or frenum, is one of the components oral mucosa that can be found in both upper and lower mucosa. When it does not develop correctly, present anomalies. It common among parents, caregivers, even healthcare professionals to have some difficulty managing improperly inserted frenula, as well addressing their potential consequences. most measure for this alteration frenectomy, ...

A case of sarcoidosis, unusual in that it was confined to the tongue, is reported in a 50 year-old female. The condition resolved after 1 year of steroid therapy and excision of fibrous tethering bands. Intra-oral sarcoidosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of lingual swelling and induration.

In this paper, we describe the extension of an existing monolingual QA system for English-to-Chinese and English-toJapanese cross-lingual question answering (CLQA). We also attempt to characterize the influence of translation on CLQA performance through experimental evaluation and analysis. The paper also describes some language-specific issues for keyword translation in CLQA.

In this study, we recorded jaw movements and the acoustic signal of 15 babies of 8 to 12 months of age during babbling in order to assess the hypothesis whereby tongue gestures would be more independent from mandibular ones with age. Results corroborate our expectations. We have shown that increase in the amplitude of tongue gestures in the anterior/posterior dimension, in relation to vertical ...