Clinical Study

Objective Assessment of Hypernasality in Patients with Cleft Lip and Palate with the NasalView System: A Clinical Validation Study

Table 3

Validation data for differentiation between patients with regular resonance and hypernasal patients.

MeasurementCutoffSensitivity [%]Specificity [%]Efficiency [%]

Nasalance of nnS28.5%83.387.084.2
Nasalance ratio0.6670.869.670.5
Nasalance distance15.3%68.173.969.5

nnS: nonnasal sentence.