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The purpose of the present study was to investigate changes with age in the occlusal force and the masticatory muscle activity in extremely low birthweight (ELBW) and very low birthweight (VLBW) infants, longitudinally. The subjects were eight EVLBW (ELBW and VLBW combined) infants in Hellman's Dental Stage IIA (mean age: 5 years and 0 months) and IIIA (mean age: 8 years and 3 months), and as controls...
We first conducted a questionnaire study about the development of mastication of EVLBW (extremely low and very low birthweight) infants aged 2 to 4 years in 1998, and results showed that they tended to “dislike of firm foods”, to be “picky eaters” and to have “trouble swallowing foods with a mouth full of food/drink”, when compared with the normal birthweight (NBW) infants. The purpose of the present...
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