by Karen » Fri Jul 06, 2001 6:23 pm
To answer your questions...my daughter had a "obturator"; it was a dental appliance that covered a fistula (hole) in her palate after the palate surgery failed twice. She wore it for more than a year. She had her palate closed last summer. Her speech is understandable by me, most always by strangers but she substitutes sounds for sounds she can't make. She can't make air pressure sounds very well, she sounds nasal-ly. Check out the cleftnet website, i posted the sphincter pharyngoplasty question there and an adult answered me back with some good suggestions that I would have overlooked. Keep in touch, I like to have my research done and questions answered before my daughter has surgery. Sounds like you are much the same! Thanks Karen