title: Successful correction of velopharyngeal stress incompetence in musicians playing wind instruments.
abstract: Two professional musicians who played wind instruments developed velopharyngeal stress incompetence which prevented them from generating the high intraoral pressures required to play their instruments. In both cases, we did a V-Y pushback with a superiorly-based pharyngeal flap. At 1 1/2 and two years postoperatively, both patients remain free of velopharyngeal incompetence and are actively engaged in their musical careers.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005221:Fatigue; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D009146:Music; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D011312:Pressure; D011859:Radiography; D014681:Velopharyngeal Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*