Oral breathing and speech disorders in children
Objective: To assess speech alterations in mouth-breathing children, and to correlate them with the respiratory type, etiology, gender, and age. Method: A total of 439 mouth-breathers were evaluated, aged between 4 and 12 years. The presence of speech alterations in children older than 5 years was c...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2013-07-01
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Series: | Jornal de Pediatria |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021755713000958 |