“…The submental route for endotracheal intubation proposed by Hernández Altemir (1986) has been employed and revisited by numerous authors. Even if its primary indication is associated with the surgical treatment of trauma (Anwer et al, 2007;Banerjee et al, 2021;Hassanein, & Abdel Mabood, 2017;Kaiser et al, 2018;Martins et al, 2020;Mishra et al 2020;Puricelli, 2005), the literature shows its use expanded for cases of orthognathic surgery, tumour resections and others (Goh, Loh, & Loh, 2020;Mishra et al, 2020). The technique takes less operative time than tracheostomy (Emara et al, 2019;Faraj et al, 2013;Goh et al, 2020;Surman et al, 2021) and presents low complication rates (around 7% of cases), the most common being superficial skin infection in the region of externalisation of the tube, hypertrophic scar and damage to the endotracheal tube itself ( de Toledo, Bueno, Mesquita, & Amaral, 2013;Goh et al, 2020).…”