Palatal lifting prosthesis and velopharyngeal insufficiency: Preliminary report

Palatal lifting prosthesis and velopharyngeal insufficiency: preliminary report.

OBJECTIVES Our study aimed to highlight the effectiveness of palatal lift prosthesis in patients with velopharyngeal insufficiency with previous operated cleft palate. METHODS This study was done undertaken January 2008 to December of 2009 in the Phoniatic unit of Alnoor Specialist Hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Ten patients of ≥ 8 years to ≤ 10 years of age, who had previously undergone sur...

Evaluation of palatal prosthesis for the treatment of velopharyngeal dysfunction.

Some patients presenting velopharyngeal dysfunction need treatment with a palatal prosthesis, and few researches attempt to evaluate the judgement of its efficacy. For that reason, a questionnaire was submitted to 48 patients with a palatal prosthesis, with ages from 8 to 74 (mean 31.47), from which 42 had a congenital cleft, 2 exhibited an acquired cleft and 4 presented total or partial palsy ...

Palatal Lengthening With Double-Opposing Buccal Flaps for Velopharyngeal Insufficiency

Treating Velopharyngeal Inadequacy Using an Interim Palatal Lift Prosthesis – A Case Report

Velopharyngeal incompetence is one of the contributing factors for speech disorders. This condition usually follows certain disorders like cleft palate, soft palate paralysis and neurologic disorders. Cleft palate is one of the major contributing factors for the velopharyngeal incompetence. Various treatment modalities have been proposed including prosthetic management, surgical correction and ...

Velopharyngeal Insufficiency and Cleft

1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95817, USA 2Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA 3Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Calgary, Calgory, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 4Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt Univer...