Effect of Septoplasty on Cepstral Analysis of Voice

Thejaswi, D.; Alfred, Rezwin M.; D’Souza, Florida P.

doi:10.1007/s12070-015-0862-3

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“…Males are affected more than females. 1 Nasal resonance can play an important role in determining the quality of voice. 2 The nose adds quality by allowing some air to escape through it during speech.…”

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Effect of septoplasty on quality of voice

Gupta¹,

Gupta

Jamwal

2019

Int J Otorhinolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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Background: Septoplasty is one the most commonly performed surgery in ENT. The aim of this study was to evaluate change in voice after septoplasty using voice handicap index (VHI).Methods: The current study was conducted at Department of ENT, SMGS Hospital, Government Medical College, Jammu, from October 2017 to November 2018. The study population was the patients who had come to the department with deviated nasal septum admitted for septoplasty. Voice assessment was done by Subjective Voice evaluation using VHI. It was done at three times i.e. preoperatively, postoperatively at 1 week and then postoperatively at 1 month. Results: Out of 50 cases operated, 84% patients of present study were in the age group of 18-30 years. The mean age was 25 years. The eldest patient in our study was 55 years old. 40 patients were males and 10 were females with male: female ratio of 4:1. Mean VHI score at preoperative, postoperative 1 week and postoperative 1 month were 23.2, 22 and 21.5 respectively. No statistical difference was obtained while comparing the mean VHI score at different time intervals. The scores between 0-30 are in the mild category i.e. minimal amount of handicap.Conclusions: According to our experience a widened nasal cavity has no effect on voice quality and procedures about nasal obstruction like septoplasty can be performed safely. However, professional voice users, in particular, should be informed about the possible minor postoperative changes, before the septoplasty procedure.

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Effect of septoplasty on quality of voice

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Gupta

Jamwal

2019

Int J Otorhinolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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“…Nasal obstruction is one of the common complaints of patients visiting otorhinolaryngology clinics and the one of main reasons of nasal obstruction is nasal septal deviation [ 1 ]. Septoplasty is a well-known surgical procedure for management of nasal septal deviation [ 2 ].…”

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Effect of Septoplasty on Voice Quality: A Prospective-Controlled Trial

Güleç

Külahlı

Şahin

et al. 2016

Clin Exp Otorhinolaryngol

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Objectives.The purpose is to investigate effect of septoplasty and widened nasal patency on voice quality.Methods.Fifty patients who undergone septoplasty were included in the study. Thirty-three people who had similar age and distribution were enrolled as control group. Before and 1 and 3 months after surgery, anterior rhinomanometry, voice analysis by Multi-Dimensional Voice Program, and spectrographic analysis were performed to patients. The recordings of /a/ vowel were used to evaluate average fundamental frequency (F0), jitter percent, and shimmer percent. In spectrographic analyses, F3–F4 values for the vowels /i, e, a, o, and u/, nasal formant frequencies of the consonants /m/ and /n/ in the word /mini/, and 4 formant frequencies (F1, F2, F3, and F4) for nasalized /i/ vowel following a nasal consonant /n/ in the word /mini/ were compared. The differences in nasal resonance were evaluated. All patients were asked whether change in their voices after the surgery. Preoperative and postoperative voice parameters and anterior rhinomanometry results were compared separately with the control group as well as in the patient group itself.Results.Preoperative total nasal resistance (TNR) values of patients were higher than the control group (P=0.001). TNR values of patients measured one day before surgery and after surgery in the 1st and 3rd months were different and these differences were significant statistically (P=0.001). There was no significant difference between the voice analysis parameters in preoperative, postoperative 1st, and 3rd months. As a result of their subjective reviews, 12 patients (36%) noted their voices were better than before surgery and 20 patients (61%) noted no change before and after surgery.Conclusion.Providing widened nasal cavity has no effect on voice quality.

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