Some patients may even require secondary surgery for velopharyngeal insufficiency.

Different terms can be used to describe this phenomenon in addition to "velopharyngeal inadequacy".

Velopharyngeal insufficiency can be caused by an anatomical abnormality of the throat.

It is not thought to contribute to velopharyngeal inadequacy, except in cases where the tonsils have also been removed.

Velopharyngeal insufficiency can also occur after adenoidectomy.

The velopharyngeal opening connects the oral air passageway with the nasal air passageway.

A video nasopharyngeal endoscopy observes velopharyngeal function, movements of the soft palate, and pharyngeal walls.

Tonsil enlargement can affect speech, making it hypernasal and giving it the sound of velopharyngeal incompetence.

Correction of velopharyngeal insufficiency by pharyngeal augmentation using autologous cartilage: A preliminary report.

Pharyngeal flap surgery may be able to improve speech performance in children or adults with a cleft palate who have velopharyngeal insufficiency.

The velopharyngeal mechanism is responsible for directing the transmission of sound energy and air pressure in both the oral cavity and the nasal cavity.

Pharyngeal flap surgery may be recommended to resolve velopharyngeal incompetence after patients prove unable to achieve significant speech improvements through speech therapy alone.

A result of an open connection between the oral cavity and nasal cavity is called velopharyngeal inadequacy (VPI).

A possible explanation is that the earlier the surgery, the less likely the child will have developed compensatory strategies to overcome the velopharyngeal incompetence (Armour et al., 2005).

Velopharyngeal inadequacy (VPI) is a malfunction of a velopharyngeal mechanism.

The general term for disorders of the velopharyngeal valve is velopharyngeal dysfunction (VPD).

The CFT uses clinical speech instrumentation (such as endoscopy, pressure flow, videofluoroscopy, etc.) to assess velopharyngeal function, when indicated.

Velopharyngeal incompetency: When the soft palate and the lateral/posterior pharyngeal walls fail to separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity during speech.

Velopharyngeal incompetence is a defective closure of the velopharyngeal valve due to its lack of speed and precision.

It includes three subterms: velopharyngeal insufficiency, velopharyngeal inadequacy, and velopharyngeal mislearning.

Velopharyngeal insufficiency: The inability of the velopharyngeal sphincter to sufficiently separate the nasal cavity from the oral cavity during speech.

The laser may induce progressive palatal fibrosis, accompanied by medial traction of the posterior tonsillar pillars i.e., scar tissue reduces the airspace in the pharynx leading to velopharyngeal insufficiency.

Other ways of treating velopharyngeal insufficiency is by placing a posterior nasopharyngeal wall implant (commonly cartilage or collagen) or type of soft palate lengthening procedure (i.e. VY palatoplasty).

A females newborn baby with a "myopathic" stiff face, open mouth, high-arched palate, microgenia, generalized muscular hypotonia, limited extension of elbows, wrists and knees, flexed adducted thumbs, velopharyngeal insufficiency, and hypertrichosis.