This flap creates a bridge at the back of the throat to help the velopharyngeal valve close and prevent air from leaking through the nose when talking (Picture 3). The procedure is done in …

Pharyngeal flap: This procedure to treat VPI involves taking a flap of tissue from the back of your throat and suturing it to your palate with dissolvable stitches.

Pharyngeal flap surgery is a procedure to correct the airflow during speech. The procedure is common among people with cleft palate and some types of dysarthria.

This narrowing may be accomplished either with a pharyngeal flap or with sphincter pharyngoplasty. The pharyngeal flap creates a single subtotal central obstruction of the …

Pharyngeal flap is a surgery that takes a flap of tissue from the back of the throat and attaches it to the palate (roof of the mouth). This is done to improve the quality of yor child's speech.

Procedure: The pharyngeal flap is done by taking a flap of tissue from the back of the throat (pharyngeal wall) and attaching it to the soft palate (velum). This flap forms a “bridge” to close …

Your surgeon will lift a flap of tissue from the back of your child’s throat (oral-nasal cavity) and attach it to the back of the palate. The flap will partially close the space between the nose and …

Pharyngeal flap surgery makes it easier for the muscles to stop the air from getting into the nose while speaking. A flap of muscle is taken from the back wall of the throat and is attached to the …

May 12, 2017 · Starting on the right suture the superior lateral border of the pharyngeal flap to the superior medial border of the inferiorly based palatal flap. Start at the apex closest to the oral …

Sep 18, 2024 · Your child has been recommended to have an operation to help correct nasal-sounding speech (hypernasality). The operation is called a pharyngeal flap pharyngoplasty.