Otologic and Rhinologic Outcomes in Children With Clef Palate

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.