Clinical Study

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

Table 6

Validation data for differentiation between patients with no and borderline rhinophonia and patients with marked and severe hypernasality.

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

Nasalance of nnS33.0%86.593.190.5
Nasalance ratio0.7278.484.582.1
Nasalance distance14.02%75.770.772.6

nnS: nonnasal sentence.