Renata Paciello Yamashita

• Abstract

  The rehabilitation process of cleft lip and palate involves several surgical procedures, including orthognathic surgery that aims to correct skeletal deformities that may remain until adulthood. Complications after orthognathic surgery include changes in sensitivity in areas close to the peripheral branches of the maxillary and mandibular nerves, being mainly related of local anatomy of t…

  Impact of low intensity Lasertheraphy on recovery nervous sensitivity after orthognathic surgery in individuals with cleft lip and palate., AP.R

• Abstract

  Subjects with cleft lip and palate may present speech symptoms due to velopharyngeal dysfunction (VPD). Objective: To develop a protocol for velopharyngeal function rating, whose categories are based on the combination of speech symptoms of VPD perceptually evaluated, and their correspondence with the velopharyngeal orifice size measurement. It is expected that this protocol allows the sp…

  Study of velopharyngeal function based on perceptual and instrumental evaluation, AP.R

• Abstract

  Velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) surgical management must assure upper airway patency besides speech symptoms elimination. Among the surgeries for VPI correction are pharyngeal flap surgery and intravelar veloplasty. Objective: To investigate the effect of pharyngeal flap and intravelar veloplasty surgery on breathing and speech, comparing hypernasality, hiponasality, nasopharyngeal dim…

  Pharyngeal flap and intravelar veloplasty: effect on breathing and speech, AP.R

• Abstract

  Some authors advocate the use of secondary palatoplasty with intravelar veloplasty as a first option for the VPI treatment, since the procedure is considered more physiological. Thus, those patients requiring future pharyngeal flap surgery after intravelar veloplasty may present a more favorable velopharyngeal condition avoiding the use of large flap and its undesirable effects on breathi…

  Intravelar veloplasty prior to pharyngeal flap: speech outcomes, BP.IC

• Abstract

  The diagnosis of the speech symptoms caused by velopharyngeal dysfunction is done by means of perceptual assessment. This method is considered the gold standard for the assessment of speech disorders related to cleft palate and velopharyngeal dysfunction. However, due to the subjective nature of perceptual assessment, it is difficult to obtain a high level of agreement regarding the sever…

  Influence of speech sample on the perceptual judgment of hypernasality, BP.MS

• Abstract

  Introduction: Subjects with cleft lip and palate may present speech symptoms due to velopharyngeal dysfunction (VPD). Objective: To develop a protocol for velopharyngeal function rating, whose categories are based on the combination of speech symptoms of VPD perceptually evaluated, and their correspondence with the velopharyngeal orifice size measurement. It is expected that this protocol…

  Perceptual speech symptons and velopharyngeal orifice size in the prediction of velopharyngeal function, BP.DR

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• Abstract

  Introduction: The perceptual speech assessment is considered the gold standard in the diagnosis of VPD individuals with cleft lip and palate; therefore, the establishment of the reliability of this method is fundamental. Objective: To define, based on international parameters, the criteria to be used in the perceptual speech assessment in individuals with cleft palate, in order to increas…

  Perceptual assessment of speech material in individuals with repaired cleft palate, BE.EP.DR