The hemitongue paralysis that occurs as a result of a classic hypoglossal-facial nerve crossover procedure can result in profound functional deficits in speech, mastication, and swallowing. The ...

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - There's a lot of brain power that goes into speech. First, there's a thought or idea, which the ...

MNDs are neurological disorders that destroy motor neurons, the cells that control skeletal muscle activity such as walking, breathing, speaking, and swallowing.

The smooth tongue has a deep red glossy appearance and is usually quite painful and may be noted in patients complaining of glossodynia (Figure 4). This condition is due to atrophy of the papillae ...

Study using a new, child-friendly scale found patients up to age 2 had smaller mouth openings than healthy peers, risking ...

It can lead to brain atrophy, increasing the risk of dementia ... and mood swings. Inflammation of tongue, painful sores in the mouth and pale skin are seen when the body does not have enough ...

This atrophy typically starts in the middle of the face and may extend to the upper lip, nose, and areas around the eye, eventually impacting the neck, tongue, and even the gums and roof of the mouth ...

Based on bilateral tongue atrophy with fibrillations and a normal CT, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with bulbar onset had been diagnosed 1 month previously and a percutaneous gastrostomy was performed ...

GT was diagnosed by its typical clinical presentation: atrophy of the filiform papillae as a red plaque ... fissures on the dorsal and/or dorsolateral aspects of the tongue in different arrangements ...

But until recently, we haven’t had any therapeutics to target the root cause of geographic atrophy, an advanced form of dry AMD. Pegcetacoplan (Syfovre) is the first FDA-approved drug to slow ...