A Comparative Study of Pre and Post- Operative Speech Evaluation in Children with Tongue-tie

Dr. R. Siva; K. Sara Kripa; Dr. M. Gowri Shankar; Dr. D. Saravanan

Volume : VIII, Issue : III, March - 2018

A Comparative Study of Pre and Post- Operative Speech Evaluation in Children with Tongue-tie

Dr. R. Siva, K. Sara Kripa, Dr. M. Gowri Shankar, Dr. D. Saravanan

Abstract :

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether ankyloglossia is associated with articulation problems and the effect of frenuloplasty on speech and tongue mobility.

STUDY DESIGN: Descriptive analysis was carried out by mean and standard deviation for quantitative variables, frequency and proportion for categorical variables. Data was also represented using appropriate diagrams like bar diagram, pie diagram.

SETTING: Government Dharmapuri Medical College Hospital, Dharmapuri.

SUBJECTS: In this study, thirty children with tongue tie were included as experimental group.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The main outcomes are

1. Compared the percentage of articulation errors during pre and post operative tongue tie release surgery

2. Systematically investigated the type of misarticulations and occurrence of errors among younger (3–6 yrs) and older (6–12yrs) groups.

Results: The SODA error patterns decreased significantly in younger age group after tongue–tie release compared to older age groups followed by speech therapy for a period of 3 months.

CONCLUSION:

The tongue–tie release is a simple procedure which will be benefitted for the earlier age groups (3–6 yrs). Misarticulations like substitutions, additions, omissions and deletions have significantly reduced in younger age groups when the tongue–tie release is done in–prior followed by speech therapy for at least six months.