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

Table 4

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

Measurement	Cutoff	Sensitivity [%]	Specificity [%]	Efficiency [%]
Nasalance of nnS	28.6%	91.9	91.3	91.7
Nasalance ratio	0.72	78.4	95.7	85.0
Nasalance distance	15.0%	81.1	73.9	78.3

nnS: nonnasal sentence.