Otologic and Rhinologic Outcomes in Children With Cleft Palate at Age 10 Years

OBJECTIVE:

To compare otologic and rhinologic outcomes in patients with cleft palate according to surgical protocols and type of cleft.

DESIGN:

Monocentric retrospective and prospective analysis of medical reports.

PATIENTS, PARTICIPANTS:

All consecutively treated patients affected by a cleft palate, born between December 2006 and December 2009 and followed in the Montpellier University Hospital, at the age of 10 years.

INTERVENTIONS:

Results of audiometry, tympanometry, otoscopy, tubomanometry and rhinomanometry and orofacial tomodensitometry done at the age of 10 were evaluated.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S):

The history of ventilation tubes inserted, and the results at the EDTQ test were analyzed.