Cephalometric Assessment of the Posterior Airway Space in Patients With Cleft Palate After Palatoplasty
2003; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 40; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1597/1545-1569(2003)040 2.0.co;2
ISSN1545-1569
AutoresEdmund Rose, Ulrike Thissen, Jörg‐Elard Otten, I. Jonas,
Tópico(s)Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments
ResumoAbstract Objective: Upper airway obstruction and mouth breathing influence facial growth and development, which may result in breathing disorders while asleep. The purpose of the present investigation was to analyze cephalometric alterations between patients with cleft palate and a noncleft control group in an obstructive sleep disordered breathing-specific tracing. Setting: The study was conducted in the cleft palate clinic of a university hospital. Participants: Fifty-three subjects with a mean age of 12.3 ± 3.7 years (range 6.3 to 17.2 years). The cohort included 33 subjects (13 females, 20 males; mean age 12.1 ± 3.8 years, mean body mass index 17.5 ± 2.9 kg/m2) with surgical closure of a unilateral or bilateral cleft palate and a matched control of noncleft participants. None of the subjects suffered from sleep disordered breathing syndrome. Results: Compared with the controls, patients with cleft palate had a significant narrow anterior-posterior dimension of the pharynx at the level of the maxillary...
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