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Swallow Your Pride Podcast

333 – Can Intraoral Cameras Improve Dysphagia Management? Let’s Zoom In…

Swallow Your Pride Podcast

Theresa Richard, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S

Education, Health & Fitness, Business, Careers, Medicine

4.8899 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

You know how dentists have those intraoral cameras that let patients see what’s going on in their mouth?

What if SLPs could use those as part of their dysphagia assessment?

Or as part of their biofeedback during therapy to check for residue and to see if certain compensatory strategies work? Just imagine quickly peeking into a patient’s mouth with an angled intraoral camera and finding bread in the valleculae from the patient’s last meal (which was two hours ago)!

Turns out we can!

James Curtis, PhD, CCC-SLP, and Ann Miles, PhD, are two SLPs and researchers who are exploring this idea and spill all the beans with us in this week’s episode of The Swallow Your Pride Podcast!

Join James and Anna as they discuss the intraoral camera and…

The benefits of adding it to our dysphagia assessments
Potential applications in therapy and patient education
The pioneering work of Jose Vergara’s team in Brazil
Technical challenges
Patient tolerance
Current and future research
Access to this instrument

Tune in and give a shout-out to your local dentist for inspiring this idea!

TIMESTAMPS:

Initial exploration of intraoral cameras (00:05:42)
Clinical application of intraoral cameras (00:10:44)
Advantages and limitations of intraoral cameras (00:12:51)
Procedure for using intraoral cameras (00:15:05)
Challenges with intraoral cameras (00:19:01)
Patient Positioning and Maneuvering (00:20:05)
Challenges and Skills of Rigid Exam vs. Flexible Scope (00:20:56)
Advantages of Intraoral Cameras (00:21:10)
Importance of Post-Swallow Images and Video Clips (00:22:28)
Sensitivity and Reliability of Intraoral Cameras (00:24:30)
Comparative Research and Reproducibility (00:26:02)
Limitations and Need for More Research (00:28:25)
Cost and Infection Control Considerations (00:32:15)
Integration into Clinical Protocols (00:33:42)
Future Research and Implementation Studies (00:37:44)
Intraoral Camera Use in New Zealand (00:40:09)
Availability and Cost of Intraoral Cameras (00:40:56)
Patient Populations for Intraoral Camera Use (00:41:38)
Challenges and Benefits of Rigid Endoscopy (00:44:23)

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Transcript

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0:12.8

On this episode of the Swall Your Pride podcast, we have two guests. We have Dr. James Curtis and Dr. Anna Miles. Dr. James Curtis is an assistant professor of speech language pathology and principal investigator of the Aerodigestive Innovations Research Lab within the Department of Odolaryngology

0:15.8

head and neck surgery at the Wile Cornell Medical

0:18.1

College of Cornell University.

0:20.1

His mission is to improve the health and quality of life

0:22.2

of people with voices following swallowing disorders through clinical innovation, scientific discovery, and multidisciplinary collaborations.

0:28.5

His current lines of research include identifying mechanisms of voice, cough, and swallowing disorders in people with

0:33.9

respiratory and neurological diseases, testing the effects of respiratory

0:37.5

swallow coordination training and cough skill training on airway protective

0:40.8

outcomes, and developing novel

0:42.8

and clinically feasible techniques for voice, cough,

0:45.1

and swallowing assessments and treatments.

0:48.2

And our other guest is Dr. Anna Miles.

0:50.6

She's a practicing speech language pathologist with 25 plus years of experience working in the acute and community settings.

0:57.0

Anna is an associate professor at the University of Auckland.

1:00.0

She is a researcher, lecturer, and clinician in the area of voice and swallowing disorders.

1:04.0

Dr. Anna Miles has 130 peer-reviewed publications and 2,000 plus citations.

1:10.0

She is the New Zealand Speech Language Therapacean

1:13.4

expert advisor in adult dysphagia, active member of the Disphasia Research

1:17.1

Society, and has been awarded Asha Fellow for her contributions to research,

1:20.7

clinical teaching, and international service. Welcome to the Swale Your Pride Podcast. I'm your host, Trisa Richard. I'm a board

1:38.4

certified specialist in Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders and founder of the

1:42.3

Metacelp Collective and Medi SLP education.

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