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JOURNAL OF ORAL REHABILITATION
Volume 47, Issue 4, Pages 523-527Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/joor.12933
Keywords
cerebral palsy; electrogustometry; enjoyment of a meal; motor and intellectual disabilities; taste and olfaction
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- Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan
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Gustatory function is closely related to chewing and swallowing; however, there are currently no reports regarding gustatory function in persons with cerebral palsy (CP). The aim of this study was to compare the gustatory function between persons with CP and healthy controls. We investigated sweet, salty, sour and bitter tastes using the whole-mouth method and measured the electrogustometric thresholds in the chorda tympani nerve area. Twelve participants with CP (6 women and 6 men) for whom gustatory testing was possible at our facilities, and 17 age-matched controls (9 women and 8 men) were included. The mean age +/- standard deviation was 58.6 +/- 8.1 years and 58.5 +/- 8.7 years in subjects with CP and controls, respectively. Taste detection and identification were significantly worse in persons with CP compared with the controls. Taste identification was more impaired than taste detection. At the highest concentration, taste identification was impossible 11 times out of 48 (12 persons x 4 kinds of tastes) in persons with CP but such a deficit was not observed in 68 attempts (17 persons x 4 kinds of tastes) involving controls. The electrogustometric thresholds were not significantly different between the groups. Gustatory function associated with chewing and swallowing is worse in persons with CP compared to the controls.
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