The drooling patient: evaluation and current surgical options.

摘要: Drooling is a common stigmatizing problem necessitating increased care in the neurologically damaged child or adult. Appropriate physiotherapy frequently reduces drooling but rarely eliminates it. The goal of surgical therapy to minimize while specifically avoiding complication xerostomia. During past 4 years, 37 46 patients assessed have undergone surgery intended reduce drooling. Good results been obtained with bilateral transtympanic neurectomy procedures; it procedure choice more retarded patient. Encouraging six submandibular duct relocation; because operative morbidity, less child.