Structural Flashcards
Most common palate repair surgeries
V-Y veau Walder Kilner
Von Langenbeck
Furlow… Double opposing z plasty
Vomer flap
What age do we repair cleft palate with surgery?
9-12 mos
The V-Y helps VP closure by
Elongating palate
Elevation of soft palate
Secondary surgery, only for severe VPI
Pharyngeal flap
Pharyngeal flap requires
Lateral wall movement
Pharyngeal flap risks
Stunted facial growth
Sleep apnea
Hyponasality
Prosthesis devices
Speech bulb/obdurator
Palatal obdurator
Palatal lift
What % cleft palate have conductive hearing loss?
96%
Therapy for cleft patient is appropriate if… (5)
Compensatory artic problems Inconsistent or mild nasal rustle (small gap) Phoneme specific nasality Nasality is due to dysarthria or apraxia Improves with trial therapy
Muscle for velum raising and vp closure
Levator veli palatini
Muscle for auditory canal tube opening
Tensor veli palatini
What does the uvulus muscle do?
Shortens velum
Lifts and pulls velum back
Helps with VP closure
What does the palatoglossus do?
Aids in velar lowering
And/or
Tongue elevation
What does the palatopharyngeus do?
Constricts and elevates pharynx. Helps with swallowing
Babbling and clefts…
Less babbling
Delayed reduplicated babbling
Cleft and consonant inventories
Avoid pressure consonants
Avoid anterior sounds
Fewer overall
Compensatory artic patterns
Glottal stops and glottal fricatives
Common phonological processes with cleft
Backing
Nasal assimilation
Improve with artic faster if cleft is repaired prior to age
10
Hypernasality most noticeable on …
Vowels
Decreased utterance length due to…
Air leaks, poor pressure… Causes more respiratory effort, resulting in more frequent breaths
Face is developing in what week?
4-10th
Combo of genetic and environmental factors called…
Multifactorial inheritance
Incidence cleft lip with or without palate
1 in 1000 live births
Delayed dentition leads to
Delayed chewing
Pharyngeal swallow develops at…
10th to 11th week gestation
Palate fuses at what week gestation?
10-11th
Suckling ability (anterior to posterior motion) at what week
18-24 weeks gestation
Most can suckle and swallow enough to maintain nutrition by age…
8-8.5 months gestation
Mix of suckle and suck can be seen in infants as young as…
6-9 months
Feeding concerns include…
Weak suck Not enough nutrition taken Nasal regurgitation Long feeding over 20-30 mins Fatigue Poor weight gain Parental anxiety affects bonding
SLP roles
Counsel parent, education
Swallowing
Artic and language
Cleft team coordinator
Best feeding position
Upright with chin tuck
Tips on feeding…
Weigh infant daily
In/out diary
Frequent burping
When to do cleft lip surgery?
Rule of 10s… 10 g Hgb?, 10 weeks, 10 lbs
As early as 6-8 weeks
2-3 months
Most common cleft lip surgery
Millard technique…
Cut as you go
Preserves philtral dimple and cupids bow
Scar is along philtral
Post cleft lip surgery feelings…
By syringe for 10 days
Velcro arm restraints
Avoid nipples which might damage sutures
Suture line care and cleaning
Speech problems persist after palate surgery in what percent of cases?
25%
If speech problems persist, secondary physical management (prosthesis) is usually needed by what age?
4 to 8 years
Post-op concerns for palate surgery
Swelling obstructs airway
Pain management and over sedation.. Meds given 7-10 days
Change in oral nasal airway dynamics
Feeding post palate surgery
Liquid diet
Soft foods 3 weeks post op
Bottles avoided
Arm restraints
We may help VP ——- but not VP ———-
Incompetence, but not insufficiency
Feedback used in therapy
Biofeedback
Nasometer
CPAP therapy
Compensations in glottis and strain may lead to
Voice disorders… Dysphonia, nodules
Hypo nasality may be seen on…
Vowels, nasal consonants
Soft voice syndrome, due to
Large nasal resonance absorbs acoustic energy - quiet vowels
Loss of pressure through VP port, hard to get loud
As a compensatory strategy for hyper nasality
In compensatory artic
Manner usually maintained
Placement is moved back
Create pharyngeal rather than oral pressure
Nasal sniff may be used for phoneme…
/s/
3 syndromes
Pierre robin sequence
Velocardiofacial syndrome
Stickler syndrome
Apert syndrome
Cleft classifications
Lip, palate
Unilateral, bilateral
Complete, incomplete
Primary, secondary palate
What is the ratio of left, right, bilateral cleft incidence
6 left - 3 right - 1 both
Where pink part of lip meets skin
Vermillion- cutaneous border
Hard and soft palates are part of the —- palate
Secondary
Layers of flat broad tendons…
Aponeusosis
Nasal cavity roof
Ethmoid bone
Nasal floor
Maxilla
Nasal lateral walls
Nasal bone
Nasal Conchae
Maxilla
Palatine bone