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Tongue Fasciculation - Articles
Tongue Twisters for twisted tongues?
by
Tom Weidig
Posted
Sun 05 Nov 2006 12:00am
I am currently reading Stutter by Harvard Professor Shell. He claims that tongue twisters are all always impossible for people who stutter. Is this assertion true?
I can do tongue twisters when I concentrate: How about you?
Maybe, we could even use them to improve our speech control. The secret about tongue twisters is to switch between two
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Raynaud’s phenomenon affecting the tongue of a patient
by
Jan
Posted
Fri 11 Sep 2009 4:57pm
A case report by M. J. Bridges and C. A. Kelly
Raynaud’s disease of the tongue may occur in patients with connective tissue disease, or in patients without underlying disease. Symptoms include dysarthria, temporary paraesthesia, lingual ulceration, and tongue spasms, and diagnosis rests
on careful history taking and, ideally, confirmation
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Young man dies from tongue piercing
by
Dr. Ivor K.
Posted
Fri 26 Sep 2008 5:16pm
Haaretz Newspaper from Israel brings a story of an 18-year-old Israel Defense Forces soldier who died this Sunday from an infection he received from a tongue piercing... the piercing in his tongue.
The manager of the emergency room at Rambam, Dr. Yaron Bar-Lavi said that during the course of the soldier’s treatment, he began taking medication to deal
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Sleep Apnea and Tongue Scalloping: A Simple Screening Test?
by
Dr. Steven P.
Posted
Sun 08 Nov 2009 10:01pm
2 Comments
One of the most common exam findings that I see in people with sleep apnea is what’s called tongue scalloping. This is where you see ridges, or a scalloping pattern along with sides of the tongue, created by the tongue pressing against the side teeth. One study showed that having tongue scalloping was 70% predictive of the presence of obstructive sleep
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Tongue Scalloping: A Simple Marker for Sleep Apnea?
by
Dr. Steven P.
Posted
Thu 21 Jan 2010 7:40am
4 Comments
physical finding that's rarely mentioned is tongue scalloping (click here for picture). This is when you have impressions or ridges on the sides of your tongue where it sits against your molars. One past study showed that having tongue scalloping can positively predict the presence of apneas or hypopneas and oxygen desaturation in 89% of cases. Overall
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