TABLE III.
Summary of Results.
Medialization Location |
Sound Quality |
Intensity | Ease of Phonation |
Efficiency | Airway Protection |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anterior | + | − | +++ | − | + |
Middle | + | − | +++ | − | ++ |
Posterior | ++++ | ± | ++ | ++ | +++ |
Each + represents ~10% increase, each − represents ~10% decrease, except for airway protection, where each + represents ~25% increase.