During a FEES, the clinician should observe anatomical structures during quiet and forced respiration, coughing, speaking, and dry swallows before swallowing trials with food and/or drink.

Which nerve innervates the stylohyoid and elevates the hyoid bone and tongue base?

Patients with degenerative neuromuscular diseases should be placed on a feeding tube after they can no longer eat anything by mouth and shows signs of malnutrition.

In order to increase muscle strength and size, a rehabilitative program must include overload and specificity. 

Contraction of scars, the result of surgical excision, may result in dysphagia long after surgery.

Intubation injury is the leading cause of tooth loss in adults.

All palliative care patients are on hospice.

Proper nutrition can be achieved by a combination of oral and non-oral diet.

Providing oral sensory awareness is thought to decrease muscle atrophy.

As a fluid becomes more viscous, it is more easily deformed.