Buccinator Myomucosal Flap With Furlow Palatoplasty and VPI

Fayoum University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Velopharyngeal Insufficiency

Treatments: Procedure: Buccinator myomucosal flap with Furlow palatoplasty

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05626933

EC 2222

Details and patient eligibility

About

Nasopharyngoscopic examination of the 20 patients with secondary VPI following 2 flap palatoplasty will be done for visualization of the velopharyngeal port, allowing assessment of the pattern and grade of velopharyngeal closure during speech and the presence or absence of a velopharyngeal gap and after VPI repair by Buccinator myomucosal flap with Furlow palatoplasty

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 6 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 5-6 years old children with previous treated complete cleft palate with 2 flap palatoplasty technique, nonsyndromic.
• lip and palate repair performed by one craniofacial surgeon

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with syndromic cleft lip.
• Bilateral cleft lip
• Patient older younger 5 years.
• Associated Cardiac anomalies.
• Any systemic condition

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Buccinator myomucosal flap with Furlow palatoplasty

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Buccinator myomucosal flap with Furlow palatoplasty