Sensory changes after tongue reduction for macroglossia.

Kanako Matsumoto Kei-Ichi Morita Shigeharu Jinno Ken Omura

Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Oral Restitution, Division of Oral Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Advanced Molecular Diagnosis and Maxillofacial Surgery, Hard Tissue Genome Research Center, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan; Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) Program, International Research Center for Molecular Science in Tooth and Bone Diseases, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.

Published: January 2014

We report sensory changes after tongue reduction by the Harada-Enomoto method for macroglossia in a 20-year-old woman with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. Sensory tests were performed before surgery and 1 week and 2 months after surgery. We assessed the static tactile threshold, vibration sense, static 2-point discrimination, pain threshold, and taste. No sensory loss of any category tested was observed after tongue reduction.

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