Theoretical considerations on the relationship between mouth breathing and dysphonia

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia

Faculdade Integrada do Recife, Recife, Brasil¹  Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil¹  Silva, Erika Henriques de Araújo Alves da¹  Tavares, Juliana Gomes¹  Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas, Maceió, Brasil¹ 

关键词: Voice;    Mouth breathing;    Dysphonia;    Voice quality;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1516-80342008000400017

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia

【 摘 要 】

It is known that mouth breathing can lead to several bone, postural, muscular and functional alterations, and also changes on vocal quality and/or vocal behavior. These alterations can compromise oral communication, in which the voice cannot perform its basic role on the transmission of an individual's verbal and emotional message. Individuals with mouth breathing can present hiper or hiponasal resonance, changes on voicing features and hoarseness. From researches on LILACS and SciELO databases, books and specialized magazines about the subject, it was carried a literature review about the relationship between mouth breathing and dysphonia, analyzing the influence of alterations caused by mouth breathing on vocal quality and/or vocal behavior. It was possible observe that mouth breathing promotes several significant structural alterations, which reflect on stomatognathic functions and on phonation. However, few authors report the possible correlation between mouth breathing and dysphonia.

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