Effect of Furlow Palatoplasty With Buccal Myomucosal Flap on the Speech Development
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: furlow with buccal myomucosal flap, two flap palatoplasty.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Cleft Palate. Basic parameters: 3 years — 5 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Egypt
- Next step
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Official title
Efficacy of Two Flap Palatoplasty (TFP) Versus Furlow With Buccinator Flap (FPBF) During Primary Palatoplasty on the Speech Development
Overview
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
Interventions
- Procedure furlow with buccal myomucosal flap
patients were treated with furlow with buccal myomucosal flap - Procedure two flap palatoplasty
patients were treated with two flap palatoplasty
Primary outcome measures
- nasopharyngoscopic examination [Time frame: through study completion, an average one week]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- 3-5 years old childreen with previous treated complete cleft lip and palate, nonsyndromic.
- lip and palate repair performed by one craniofacial surgeon
Exclusion criteria
- Patients with syndromic cleft lip.
- Redu cases
- Bilateral cleft lip
- Patient older 5years or younger 3 years.
- Associated Cardiac anomalies.
- Any systemic condition
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
Egypt · 1 center
- Fayoum University — Al Fayyum
Publications
- Refahee SM, Aboulhassan MA, Elrouby IM, Abd-El-Ghafour M. Speech outcome following primary furlow palatoplasty with buccal myomucosal flap versus two flap palatoplasty in patients with cleft palate. Clin Oral Investig. 2025 Dec 20;30(1):19. doi: 10.1007/s00784-025-06695-6. PMID 41420755
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06856330 · 55