The Age Effects on the Prognosis of Patients with Dysarthria after Lingual Frenectomy
10.3969/j.issn.1006-7299.2017.02.007
- VernacularTitle:年龄对舌系带延长术后语音障碍患者预后的影响
- Author:
Yanyun ZHANG
;
Feng LI
;
Lina XU
;
Nan GAO
;
Ziyuan LV
- Keywords:
Age;
Lingual frenectomy;
Dysarthria;
Prognosis
- From:
Journal of Audiology and Speech Pathology
2017;25(2):154-157
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To explore the age effects on the prognosis of patients with dysarthria after lingual fre-nectomy ,to provide clinical basis for the corresponding speech evaluation and treatment of the patients .Methods 154 patients with dysarthria one month after lingual frenectomy were recruited as the research objects ,83 cases of preschool ,52 cases of school-age ,adolescent 11 cases and 8 cases of adult were included .Their articulation was re-corded after postoperative recovery one month by the computer speech lab (Model 4500) according to the test table , then the recording materials were analyzed .After the patients' phonetic intelligibility(PI) was evaluated ,the corre-lation and simple linear regression analysis for age and PI were carried on .Results The PI of patients with dysar-thria one month after lingual frenectomy was positively correlated with age (r=0 .467 ,P<0 .05) .That indicates PI has an increasing trend with the growth of age .The result of simple linear regression analysis showed that the deter-mination coefficient of age to PI was 0 .270 .It showed that age had an influence on the prognosis of patients with PI after lingual frenectomy .Conclusion Aging was one of the important factors for the prognosis of patients with dys-arthria after lingual frenectomy ,but it is not the only factor .The patients with dysarthria one month after lingual fre-nectomy should be received treatment in time ,speech training must be corrected at about 4 to 8 years old with dysarthriawithout surgery .
