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| Primary Author: |
Dibbell, D.
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| Journal Title: |
Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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| Date Published: |
1979 |
| Language: |
English
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| Category: |
Orofacial Disorders
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| Key Words: |
plastic surgery throat stress palate musician wind instrument |
| Full Citation: |
Dibbell, David G., Stan Ewanowski and William L. Carter. Successful Correction of Velopharyngeal Stress Incompetence in Musicians Playing Wind Instruments. Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 64, no. 5 (1979): 662-64. |
| Full Abstract: |
Two professional musicians who played wind instruments developed velopharyngeal stress incompetence which prevented them from generating the high intraoral pressures required to play their instruments. In both cases, we did a V-Y pushback with a superiorly-based pharyngeal flap. At 1 1/2 and two years postoperatively, both patients remain free of velopharyngeal incompetence and are actively engaged in their musical careers. |
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