Relationship between feeding development and alterations in orofacial motor skills

Abstract

Introduction: The orofacial system is an anatomical-functional unit that enables the human being to perform various functions essential for life. It consists of oral structures, static and dynamic structures, and its harmonious functioning is based on the balanced relationship between its parts. Method: A systematic review was carried out to find out the relationship between feeding development and orofacial motor disturbances. As a search strategy, equations were formulated with selected descriptors MESH and DECS (“feeding, infancy”, “orofacial motricity”, “phonoaudiology”, “pediatrics”), the databases consulted were Pubmed, Science Direct, Scopus, Redalyc, Dialnet, Scielo, Proquest, World wide science, Biomed Central, Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico, Semantic Scholar, Revista Javeriana.