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All patients received secondary surgery following the technique of FPBF. Preoperative speech evaluation was done before the secondary repair and 3 months after the surgery using a hypernasal speech scale, speech intelligibility scale, and nasopharyngoscopy.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>A statistically significant improvement was observed regarding the degree of hypernasality and speech intelligibility while comparing the preoperative scores after the primary surgery to the postoperative scores after the secondary surgery.<\/jats:p>\n                <jats:p>In addition, a statistically significant improvement was found in the nasopharyngoscopic assessment.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The incorporation of a buccal myomucosal flap with Furlow palatoplasty was successful in improving hypernasality, speech intelligibility, and nasopharyngoscopic scores in patients with cleft palate.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Trial registration<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>clinicaltrials.gov (NCT05626933).<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Clinical relevance<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>This technique might be the surgical technique of choice while treating patients who are suffering from VPI after cleft palate repair.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s00784-024-05607-4","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,17]],"date-time":"2024-04-17T08:51:22Z","timestamp":1713343882000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Effectiveness of secondary furlow palatoplasty with buccal myomucosal flap in correction of velopharyngeal insufficiency in patients with cleft palate"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"28","author":[{"given":"Mamdouh Ahmed","family":"Aboulhassan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1770-9492","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Iman Mohamed","family":"Elrouby","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7550-1913","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shaimaa Mohsen","family":"Refahee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0870-1472","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohamed","family":"Abd-El-Ghafour","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,17]]},"reference":[{"issue":"4","key":"5607_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"573","DOI":"10.1016\/j.fsc.2014.07.002","volume":"22","author":"DJ Crockett","year":"2014","unstructured":"Crockett DJ, Goudy SL (2014) Cleft lip and palate. 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