They are then advanced to a soft diet and discharged the following day.
Forty-four Sprague–Dawley male rats received soft diet in order to develop masticatory muscle hypofunction.
Treatment usually combines therapies that change the loading forces (e.g., bite plate, soft diet), reduce inflammation and spasms and maximize jaw mobility and muscle stretching.
Typically, patients are maintained on a soft diet for 4 to 6 weeks and then transitioned to solid foods as tolerated.
To investigate changes in the bony microstructure of the upper and lower alveolar bone during masticatory loading induced by soft diet feeding in growing rats.
Results indicate that in the lateral mandibular corpus, hard diet animals exhibit 260% (high E2), 21% (low E2), and 82% (placebo) more growth than soft diet animals (p=0.01 to 0.03).
More often than not, this was down to a misunderstanding of the prescribed "soft diet", which was interpreted variously to include things such as hash browns, mince and peas and sponge cake.
To test this hypothesis we compared the effect of ovariectomy on the mandibular alveolar bone and the proximal tibia spongiosa of rats fed either a normal (hard) or a soft diet.
Before surgery, all patients received at least 3 to 6 months of nonsurgical therapy consisting of anti-inflammatory medications, muscle relaxants, splint therapy, physiotherapy, exercise, moist heat, cold laser, ultrasound, and soft diet or a combination thereof.
A soft diet was recommended for the first 2 weeks.
Therapies range from soft diet, splint, and physiotherapy, drugs, psychological and surgical.
