Nasalance scores in wearers of a palatal lift prosthesis in comparison with normative data for Japanese

Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 315-319

  Tachimura, Takashi ^a   Kotani, Yasuko ^a   Wada, Takeshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cleft palate; Nasalance; Nasometer; Palatal lift; Velopharynx

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; PALATE; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; SPEECH;

ADULT; CHILD; CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PALATE, SOFT; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; VELOPHARYNGEAL INSUFFICIENCY; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 2442669087     PISSN: 10556656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1597/02-107.1     Document Type: Article

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