Inducing A Child To Open Its Mouth (author's Method)
Categories:
DIRECT LARYNGOSCOPY 2
Sources:
A Manual Of Peroral Endoscopy And Laryngeal Surgery
The wounding
of the child's mouth, gums, and lips, in the often inefficacious
methods with gags, hemostats, raspatories, etcetera, are entirely
unnecessary. The mouth of any child not unconscious can be opened
quickly and without the slightest harm by passing a curved probe
between the clenched jaws back of the molars and down back of the
tongue toward the laryngopharynx. This will cause the child to gag,
when its mouth invariably opens.