Knowledge of health professionals on diagnosis and treatment of ankyloglossia in very young children

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Ana Beatriz Rocha
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Crispim, Jéssica Behrens, Lopes, Thaynara de Souza, Stabile, Andressa Mioto, Santin, Gabriela Cristina, Fracasso, Marina de Lourdes Calvo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Saúde e Pesquisa (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unicesumar.edu.br/index.php/saudpesq/article/view/6979
• topic: Ankyloglossia; Lingual frenum; Very young children.; Anquiloglossia; Freio lingual; Bebês.; Freio Lingual

Current study evaluates the knowledge of health professional on the clinical diagnosis and treatment of ankyloglossia in very young children. Samples (n=84) comprised G1 (46 physicians of ESF); G2 (13 pediatric physicians); G3 (5 phonoaudiologists) and G4 (20 dentists of ESF) who answered the questionnaire (personal data and application of protocol for assessment of the short lingual frenum, following Martinelli et al. (2012). Twenty-one professionals answered adequately the questionnaires, comprising females (66.6%), average age 46.4±12.5 years, of whom 80.9% have already received patients with tongue-tie. In the case of the mandatory stance of the tongue test, Group 1 had the lowest information rate (57.1%) when compared with Group 4 (21.4%). However, 57.1% of the professionals do not do it routinely. In the case of protocol, for items 1, 2 and 3, three professional (14.2%) marked pictures with the correct diagnosis (G1 and G3); in the case of item 4, ten professionals (47.6%) marked correctly. Results show lack of knowledge on the mandatory stance of the ankyloglossia test and the difficulty in its correct diagnosis in very young children.