Effect of Furlow Palatoplasty With Buccal Myomucosal Flap on the Speech Development

ConditionCleft Palate
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age3-5
SponsorFayoum University

About this trial

About 20 patient will be collected according to the eligibility criteria and grouped into Group I : 10 patients were treated with furlow with buccinators flap Group II : 10 patients were treated with 2 flap palatoplasty All patients will be examined by an expert Phoniatrician by Recording of speech samples in Arabic language for the children in a soundproof room including repeated syllables, sentences with high-pressure sounds and counting from 1 to 10. The records will be analyzed to assess the degree of hypernasality, speech intelligibility and compensatory speech errors

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

3-5 years old childreen with previous treated complete cleft lip and palate, nonsyndromic.

lip and palate repair performed by one craniofacial surgeon

Disqualifiers

Patients with syndromic cleft lip.

Redu cases

Bilateral cleft lip

Patient older 5years or younger 3 years.

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • furlow with buccal myomucosal flap
  • two flap palatoplasty

Treatment groups

30 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators