NCT06856330

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
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Fayoum University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 5 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

Conditions

• Cleft Palate

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-03-25
• Primary completion: 2025-06-01
• Completion: 2025-07-25
• First posted: 2025-03-04
• Last updated: 2025-07-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt