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Relationship between Food Crushing and Oral Function in Older Adults Requiring Nursing Home Care: A Pilot Study

We investigated how jelly is crushed and examined the relationship between tongue pressure and tongue food crushing ability among older adults requiring nursing home care. Seventy-two participants were instructed to freely crush the test foods soft jelly (SJ) and hard jelly (HJ). We visually evaluat...

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Autores principales: Yamawaki, Kanako, Mori, Takahiro, Itaki, Sakiko, Haruta, Azusa, Takeda, Chiho, Hiraoka, Aya, Maruyama, Mariko, Yoshikawa, Mineka, Yoshida, Mitsuyoshi, Tsuga, Kazuhiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8949916/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35329105
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063419