Ghomi H, et al. - Conducting a double-blind randomized clinical trial, researchers examined the effectiveness of the Premature Infant Oral Motor Intervention (PIOMI) in the feeding progression and early intervention. This study was a double-blind randomized clinical trial. They randomly assigned premature infants in the neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) of two hospitals in Tehran, into intervention and control group, each containing 15 infants. They administered the PIOMI to the intervention group in the course of 10 days. Compared to the control group, the intervention group reached the first oral feeding (with a mean of 7.2 days) and eight oral feeding (with a mean of 13.47 days) earlier. This suggests PIOMI as a valuable method for premature infants that can be integrated in feeding rehabilitation programs of the premature infants born with gestational age of as young as 26-29 weeks and applied at 29 weeks postmenstrual age.