In anesthesia, the Mallampati score (or Mallampati classification) is used to predict the ease of intubation. It can also be used to predict whether a patient might have obstructive sleep apnea.

Pilot Study to Determine the Utility of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Assessment of Difficult Laryngoscopy ... screening tools such as the Mallampati score, thyromental distance, and ...

and Mallampati score, had much lower likelihood ratios for predicting a difficult intubation. The upper lip bite test is a simple clinical finding that I had never heard of before, but it is ...