Prosthodontic Rehabilitation of Arabic Speaking Individuals with Velopharyngeal Incompetence: A Preliminary Study

Table 2: Distribution of the individual with their mean nasalance scores (%) for the syllable repetition and vowel prolongation tasks.

Patient	1	2	3	4	5	6	Mean (SD)	Hypernasality	p-value
Pa-Pre	48	22	22	42	33	18	30.8 (12.2)	Hypernasal	0.008*
Pa-Post	26	5	17	30	21	14	18.8 (7.9)	Normal resonance	0.008*
Pi-Pre	57	37	31	42	27	33	37.8 (11.8)	Hypernasal	0.003*
Pi-Post	34	20	23	32	18	23	25 (6.2)	Normal resonance	0.003*
Ma-Pre	68	66	57	45	68	58	60.3 (5.5)	Hypernasal	0.008*
Ma-Post	38	50	39	27	23	49	37.6 (10.9)	Hypernasal	0.008*
Mi-Pre	69	89	82	47	75	85	74.5 (8)	Hypernasal	0.028*
Mi-Post	42	75	61	40	25	80	53.8 (23)	Hypernasal	0.028*
a-Pre	27	12	19	20	12	50	23.3 (15.8)	Normal resonance	0.007*
a-Post	22	3	14	14	9	36	16.3 (12.8)	Normal resonance	0.007*
i-Pre	32	31	56	38	19	78	42.3 (23.6)	Hypernasal	0.008*
i-Post	22	22	33	27	12	51	27.8 (14.9)	Normal resonance	0.008*
u-Pre	24	15	17	22	23	61	27 (18.8)	Normal resonance	0.056
u-Post	19	7	12	16	17	31	17 (9)	Normal resonance	0.056
m-Pre	94	97	93	94	94	97	94.8 (1.9)	Nasal consonant	0.419
m-Post	92	95	94	97	92	94	94 (1.3)	Nasal consonant	0.419

* significant.