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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: Cleft Palate Craniofac J. 2007 Nov;44(6):598–606. doi: 10.1597/06-124.1

TABLE 1. Description of Quantitative Outcomes.

Measure Description
Facial movement Three-dimensional measures of facial tissues during facial animations such as smile, lip purse, cheek puff, grimace, and mouth opening
(Trotman et al., 2000; Weeden et al., 2001; Trotman et al., 2003)
Lip force Force measures made at the midline of the upper and lower lips (Barlow, 1998)
Sensory
 Perception thresholds Two-point perception thresholds measured on the right and left sides of both the upper and lower vermilion (Chen et al., 1995; Feldman et al., 1997;
Essick et al., 2001)
 Temperature thresholds Warmth-detection and cool-detection thresholds measured on the right and left sides of both the upper and lower vermilion (Martinez, 1996;
Essick et al., 2004)
Sensorimotor integration
 Perioral reflex activity Punctate (pressure-like) low-level mechanical stimulus to each right and left, upper and lower vermilion; mechanically evoked electromyography
activity is sampled bilaterally from sites over the orbicularis oris superior and inferior muscle before, during, and after
the stimulation (Barlow et al., 1993; Barlow and Bradford, 1996)