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

Efficacy of Two Flap Palatoplasty (TFP) Versus Furlow With Buccinator Flap (FPBF) During Primary Palatoplasty on the Speech Development

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06856330
Enrollment
30
Registered
2025-03-04
Start date
2025-03-25
Completion date
2025-07-25
Last updated
2025-07-28

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Conditions

Cleft Palate

Brief summary

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

PROCEDUREfurlow with buccal myomucosal flap

patients were treated with furlow with buccal myomucosal flap

patients were treated with two flap palatoplasty

Sponsors

Fayoum University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
3 Years to 5 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

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

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
nasopharyngoscopic examinationthrough study completion, an average one weekthis will be done through the nasopharyngoscopic examination of the cleft patients after repair with Furlow with buccinator flap versus two flap palatoplasty. it will assess the grade of velopharyngeal closure during speech

Countries

Egypt

Contacts

Primary ContactShaimaa Refahee
smr11@fayoum.edu.eg01227407987

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026