Table 2.

Description of Plastic Surgery Physical Examination Findings, Immediately before Tongue Reduction Compared to Postoperatively at the Patienťs Most Recent Follow-Up

Dental Features*	Immediately Preoperatively	Most Recent Postoperative Follow-Up
No. of patients	32	25
Angle class I occlusion	4	10
Angle class III occlusion	6	3
Anterior open bite	7	3†
Out-of-mouth tongue posture/tongue protrusion	14	2
Jaw deformity or retrognathia/micrognathia/prognathia or mandibular dentoalveolar protrusion	7	5
Tongue-tie	2	NA
Buccal inclination of teeth	2	1

^*Specific dental documentation was available for only a subset of patients in the cohort.

^†One patient’s anterior open bite was presumed to be caused by thumb-sucking, not macroglossia.