Question
Posted on: April 22 2016Paste for Paynetechniek Lin the speech therapy. Do you have a possible formula for this that we can prepare?
A local speech therapist asks us if we can counterfeit a paste for the Payne technique. She has a jar from the Netherlands. The label is unfortunately only listed as a composition: various types of toothpaste, PSPATIIC powder, essential oil and fluorescein.
Answer
I could find the following:
Payne technique – Place fluorescent Orabase paste on the tongue at the dorsum, tip and both sides. Have the patient swallow. Using an Ultra violet light you can easily see the spots which the tongue has contacted. To make this more effective you can distract the patient and check them a second time so that you get a true unconscious swallow.
If you are looking for an orabase in the helpdesk, but also under Orobase, you can find a composition for this paste. You will of course need to buy fluorescein from one or other channel. Maybe a concentration of 1 in a thousand is sufficient??