Effect of Septoplasty on Voice Quality: A Prospective-Controlled Trial.

Effect of Septoplasty on Voice Quality: A Prospective-Controlled Trial.

Clin Exp Otorhinolaryngol. 2016 May 27;

Authors: Gulec S, Kulahli I, Sahin MI, Kokoğlu K, Gunes MS, Avci D, Arli T

Abstract
Objectives: The purpose is to investigate effect of septoplasty and widened nasal patency on voice quality.
Methods: Fifty patients who undergone septoplasty were included in the study. Thirty-three people who had similar age and distribution were enrolled as control group. Before and 1 and 3 months after surgery, anterior rhinomanometry, voice analysis by Multi-Dimensional Voice Program, and spectrographic analysis were performed to patients. The recordings of /a/ vowel were used to evaluate average fundamental frequency (F0), jitter percent, and shimmer percent. In spectrographic analyses, F3-F4 values for the vowels /i, e, a, o, and u/, nasal formant frequencies of the consonants /m/ and /n/ in the word /mini/, and 4 formant frequencies (F1, F2, F3, and F4) for nasalized /i/ vowel following a nasal consonant /n/ in the word /mini/ were compared. The differences in nasal resonance were evaluated. All patients were asked whether change in their voices after the surgery. Preoperative and postoperative voice parameters and anterior rhinomanometry.
Results.: were compared separately with the control group as well as in the patient group itself.
Results: Preoperative total nasal resistance (TNR) values of patients were higher than the control group (P=0.001). TNR values of patients measured one day before surgery and after surgery in the 1st and 3rd months were different and these differences were significant statistically (P=0.001). There was no significant difference between the voice analysis parameters in preoperative, postoperative 1st, and 3rd months. As a result of their subjective reviews, 12 patients (36.4%) noted their voices were better than before surgery and 20 patients (60.6%) noted no change before and after surgery.
Conclusion: Providing widened nasal cavity has no effect on voice quality.

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