. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 9.

Published in final edited form as: Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2013 Dec 11;43(5):523–530. doi: 10.1016/j.ijom.2013.10.023

Table 2.

Mean tongue strength (kPa) and OPSE pre- and post-treatment by study group (paired t-test).

	OPSE score	P-value	Tongue strength (kPa)	P-value
Treatment group
Baseline	44.63 ± 16.69 (n = 8)	0.351	44.63 ± 13.39 (n = 8)	0.571
Post-treatment	46.50 ± 14.85 (n = 8)		46.50 ± 16.50 (n = 8)
Control group
Baseline	59.60 ± 8.85 (n = 8)	0.447	49.30 ± 10.53 (n = 10)	0.335
Post-treatment	54.56 ± 20.08 (n = 8)		52.40 ± 10.78 (n = 10)

OPSE: oropharyngeal swallow efficiency.