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

Table 5

Validation data for differentiation between patients with marked and severe hypernasality.

Measurement	Cutoff	Sensitivity [%]	Specificity [%]	Efficiency [%]
Nasalance of nnS	40.0%	90.0	88.9	89.2
Nasalance ratio	0.818	70.0	77.8	75.7
Nasalance distance	10.5%	70.0	59.3	62.2

nnS: nonnasal sentence.