Maxillary obturators: The relationship between patient satisfaction and speech outcome

Head and Neck

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 895-903

  Rieger, Jana M ^a,b   Wolfaardt, John F ^a,b   Jha, Naresh ^a,b,c   Seikaly, Hadi ^a,b,c  

^a Misericordia Community Hospital   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Intelligibility; Maxillary obturator; Nasalance; Obturator functioning scale; Speech outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE REGENERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HARD PALATE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MALE; MASTICATION; MAXILLARY OBTURATOR; MAXILLOFACIAL DISORDER; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOFT PALATE; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE; XEROSTOMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAXILLOFACIAL PROSTHESIS; MIDDLE AGED; PALATAL OBTURATORS; PALATE, HARD; PALATE, SOFT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 0142188681     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.10299     Document Type: Article

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