OBJECTIVE: To compare otologic and rhinologic outcomes in patients with cleft palate according to surgical protocols and type of cleft. DESIGN: Monocentric retrospective and prospective analysis of medical reports. PATIENTS, PARTICIPANTS: All consecutively treated patients affected by a cleft palate, born between December 2006 and December 2009 and followed in the Montpellier University Hospital, at the age of 10 years. INTERVENTIONS: Results of audiometry, tympanometry, otoscopy, tubomanometry and rhinomanometry and orofacial tomodensitometry done at the age of 10 were evaluated. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): The history of ventilation tubes inserted, and the results at the EDTQ test were analyzed.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
60
Uhmontpellier
Montpellier, France
Audiometry
evaluation of the hearing threshold
Time frame: 1 day
nasal ventilation
Nasal ventilation will be assessed with passive anterior rhinomanometry
Time frame: 1 day
Eustachian tube function
Eustachian tube function will be assessed with tubomanometry
Time frame: 1 day
Facial 3D scan
Facial 3D scan will be used to measure 2 criteria : * Total volum of the mastoid * Total volum of the mastoid's cells (pneumatization) Facial 3D scan will be used to measure 2 criteria : * Total volum of the mastoid * Total volum of the mastoid's cells (pneumatization) Facial 3D scan will be used to measure 2 criteria : * Total volum of the mastoid * Total volum of the mastoid's cells (pneumatization)
Time frame: 1 day
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