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Background Nasalance is used to evaluate the velopharyngeal incompetence in clinical diagnoses using a nasometer. The aim of this study is to find the nasalance differences between Vietnamese cleft palate children and Korean cleft palate children by ...
Yu-Jeong Shin, Yongsoo Kim, Hyun-Gi Kim
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Functional oropharyngeal reconstruction with myomucosal island flaps. Quality of life after surgical resection of oropharyngeal tumor and reconstruction with myomucosal island flaps. Abstract Background The buccinator myomucosal island flaps are an excellent option for “like with like” oropharyngeal reconstruction in selected cases.
C. Carnevale +3 more
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Does cleft palate repair reduce the incidence of middle ear pathology?
Introduction: In an infant, cleft palate usually affects his/her feeding, speech, eustachian tube, and middle ear physiology. The incidence of otitis media with effusion is particularly very high in the children having cleft palate.
Sunil Kumar Rout +4 more
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Management of cleft lip and palate in Egypt: A National survey
Background: Variable protocols for the management of cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) patients are currently used. However, to our knowledge, there are no previously published data about cleft management and practice in Egypt.
Tarek Abdelhameed Abulezz +2 more
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Nasoendoscopy : Clinical Implications
The purpose of this study is to discuss the clinical use of nasoendoscopy examination of the velopharyngeal closure in patients with nasal speech and to describe the clinical implications of this technique.
Apirag Chuangsuwanich +1 more
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Collection of Bilateral Cleft Lip and Palate Standard Set Variables: Establishing a Baseline
Background:. The International Consortium for Healthcare Outcomes Measurement recently published a consensus Standard Set of clinical and patient-centered metrics to measure outcomes for patients with cleft lip and/or palate (CLP).
Isabelle Citron, BmBCh +5 more
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Adenotomy in Cases with Velopharyngeal Incompetence.
We encountered two cases with transnasal leakage of fluid and hypernasality after adenotomy. One case was diagnosed as paralysis of the soft palate and the other as submucosal cleft palate. It was thought that adenotomy exacerbated the velopharyngeal incompetence in these two cases.
Ito, Asako +5 more
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Hypernasal Speech Detection by Acoustic Analysis of Unvoiced Plosive Consonants
People with a defective velopharyngeal mechanism speak with abnormal nasal resonance (hypernasal speech). Voice analysis methods for hypernasality detection commonly use vowels and nasalized vowels.
Alexander Sepúlveda-Sepúlveda +3 more
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Velopharyngeal Incompetence in Musicians: A State-of-the-Art Review. [PDF]
Mata-Pose L +8 more
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Prosthetic Rehabilitation of Velopharyngeal Incompetence
ABSTRACT Velopharyngeal (VP) dysfunction takes place when palatopharyngeal valve is unable to perform its own closing due to a lack of tissue or lack of proper movement. Insufficiency induces nasal regurgitation of liquids, hypernasal speech, nasal escape, disarticulations, and impaired speech intelligibility.
Pankaj Dhawan +3 more
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