Treatment of Velopharyngeal Insufficiency: Fifteen-Year Experience at the University of Florida.

Introduction: A 15-year experience treating velopharyngeal insufficiency at the University of Florida is presented. After diagnostic speech evaluation, preoperative videofluoroscopy was the primary method used to evaluate the function of the velopharyngeal port.

Methods: Chart reviews of all patients with velopharyngeal insufficiency, including patients with failed palatal cleft surgery, submucous cleft palate, and noncleft palate who met study criteria were included.

Longitudinal study of growth of children with unilateral cleft-lip palate from birth to two years of age.

Objective: To study the growth of children with complete unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) from birth to 2 years of age and to construct specific UCLP growth curves.

Design: Physical growth was a secondary outcome measure of a National Institutes of Health-sponsored longitudinal, prospective clinical trial involving the University of Florida (United States) and the University of São Paulo (Brazil).

Patients: Six hundred twenty-seven children with UCLP, nonsyndromic, both genders.