Magnetoencephalographic evaluation of repaired lip sensation in patients with cleft lip.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cleft lip is the most common congenital anomaly worldwide. Nevertheless, lip somatosensory characteristics of patients with cleft lip after cheiloplasty have not yet been determined. The present study used magnetoencephalography to objectively evaluate the lip sensation in patients with unilateral cleft lip to establish a new objective evaluation method.

Methods

Participants were 15 patients with unilateral cleft lip after cheiloplasty (UCL group), and 30 healthy young subjects (control group). Five points of the upper and lower lips were stimulated electrically to measure somatosensory evoked magnetic fields (SEFs). The sources of the magnetic fields were modeled as single equivalent current dipoles (ECDs). ECDs located on the central sulcus by superimposition on

SUBMITTER: Kitayama C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9498931 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature