As contribuições da fonoaudiologia estética no processo de envelhecimento saudável e sua correlações com a estética facial

Abstract

Introduction: aging is a natural, progressive and gradual process, but it is a factor of great concern because it is associated with social relationships. Evidence of facial aging can be noticed from the age of 30 onwards, the same happens due to intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Aesthetic speech therapy collaborates in the assessment, prevention and non-pharmacological treatment with a focus on facial rejuvenation. Objective: to describe the contributions of speech therapy in the healthy aging process and its correlations with facial esthetics. Method: This is a retrospective literature review carried out in the Scielo, Portal de Periódicos CAPES, Google Academic and PubMed databases. The bibliographic search followed a flowchart: search by title, reading of abstracts, reading of articles in full, eligibility, inclusion in the table and discussion of results. As inclusion criteria, articles were considered whose objective was to report the contributions of aesthetic speech therapy to the detriment of facial rejuvenation, in Portuguese, English and Spanish, published from 2005 to 2020, with availability of the full text. Results: 16 articles were selected for analysis with positive results in relation to the effectiveness of the treatment, which in general is noted with smoothing, harmonization and facial vascularization, strengthening of the musculature, and an improvement in posture and performance of stomatognathic functions is also perceived. Conclusion: The data collected show that the subjects undergoing therapy had positive results in the treatment for facial rejuvenation, which were observed by the patients themselves, their peers and by professional evaluation. The most mentioned results were: balance of measurements from the projection of the nasogerian sulcus to the tragus bilaterally, attenuation of wrinkles and expression lines, strengthening of the global musculature, definition of the facial contour, increase in eye opening, decrease in flaccidity and reduction in excessive mimicry in carrying out stomatognathic functions. Only in two articles analyzed is there a divergence in the result, where they consider that it is not possible to determine the real effectiveness of the procedures that are applied to the patient.