Week 2 Flashcards
What is swallowing
highly integrated process of moving food, liquid, saliva through the upper aero digestive tract (500 milliseconds to swallow)
Oral preparatory stage
containment and mastication (containing bolus)
Oral Transit stage
transit from mouth to oropharynx (back of mouth)
Oral/Pharyngeal (oropharyngeal) stage
transit from oropharynx to esophagus
-most complex stage
-pass food from airway to esophagus
-velopharyngeal sphincter needs to be closed and airway
Esophageal stage
transit through the esophagus to the stomach
additional stage that has been proposed
visual appreciation stimulates saliva production (some ASD or dementia patients don’t appreciate food)
premature spillage
when bolus passes through the oropharynx and you are still chewing
what happens to the muscles when elevating mandible
muscles are agonists and depressing muscles are antagonists
what happens to the muscles when depressing the mandible
muscles are agonists and the elevating muscles are antagonists
muscles included in the oral preparatory stage
orbicularis oris, masseter, temporalis, medial pterygoid, lateral pterygoid, buccinator
orbicularis oris
innervation: facial
action: closes and opens lips
masseter
innervation: trigeminal
action: elevates mandible and retracts the mandible
temporalis
innervation: trigeminal
action: elevates mandible (closing mouth)
medial pterygoid
innervation: trigeminal
action: elevates mandible
lateral pterygoid
innervation: trigeminal
action: depressor of mandible (open mouth); protrudes mandible; permits side to side movement of mandible
buccinator
innervation: facial
action: flattens cheek; holds food in contact with teeth; retracts angles of the mouth
muscles of oral/pharyngeal stage
levator veli palatini, tensor veli palatini, palatoglossus, palatopharyngeus, uvulae, mylohyoid, digastric (anterior belly), geniohyoid, stylohyoid, hyoglossus, genioglossus, styloglossus, palatoglossus
levator veli palatini
innervation: vagus and accessory (two slings below soft palate)
action: raises soft palate
tensor veli palatini
innervation: trigeminal (making balance between pressure inside middle air and outside atmosphere)
action: stretches soft palate and not highly involved in swallowing
palatoglossus
innervation: vagus and accessory
action: raises back of the tongue during the first stage of swallowing
-soft palate depressor and this is important to raise the posterior tongue to keep food in oral cavity
palatopharyngeus
innervation: vagus and accessory
action: shuts off nasopharynx during second part of swallowing (shortening pharynx and squeezing it)
uvulae
innervation: vagus and accessory
action: shortens and raises uvula
mylohyoid
innervation: trigeminal
action: elevates tongue and floor of mouth; depresses jaw when hyoid bone is fixed
digastric anterior belly
innervation: trigeminal
action: raises hyoid bone if jaw is in fixed position; depresses jaw when hyoid bone is fixed
geniohyoid
innervation: C1 and C2 via hyoglossus
action: draws hyoid bone forward; depresses mandible when hyoid bone is in fixed position
stylohyoid
innervation: facial
action: elevates hyoid and tongue base during swallowing
hyoglossus
innervation: hypoglossal (facilitates bolus transfer)
action: gibers inserted into mandible and depresses the tongue