Initial speech problems in patients treated with multiple zygomatic implants.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the speech ability of patients treated with multiple zygomatic implants. This technique can be used in patients with severe atrophy of the maxilla when there is insufficient residual bone in the anterior region for placement of conventional implants.

Materials And Methods: Between 2004 and 2008, audio recordings were performed in patients treated with fixed dental prostheses (FDP) supported by multiple zygomatic implants.

New complexities in the genetics of stuttering: significant sex-specific linkage signals.

Stuttering is a speech disorder long recognized to have a genetic component. Recent linkage studies mapped a susceptibility locus for stuttering to chromosome 12 in 46 highly inbred families ascertained in Pakistan. We report here on linkage studies in 100 families of European descent ascertained in the United States, Sweden, and Israel.