Stuart Clark (ENT)

Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon

Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK.

Latest Contribution

Reducing nasal changes in SARPE

5 July 2022 | | ENTA-Head & Neck | imaging, maxilla/surgery, nose/analysis, palatal expansion technique, palate/surgery, photogrammetry, three-dimensional

This paper from Belgium highlights completing a sub-spinal cortectomy of the anterior nasal spine during the procedure of surgically assisted rapid palatal expansion (SARPE) as a means of reducing the alar and columella width as well as the nasolabial angle....

Piezoelectric saw reducing sensory disturbance in mandibular osteotomies

5 July 2022 | | ENTA-Head & Neck | inferior alveolar nerve, mandibular osteotomy, orthognathic surgery, piezosurgery, sagittal split ramus osteotomy

This paper from Seattle in the United States looked at 20 patients with a mean age of 19.9 +/- 3.2 years with a fairly standard surgical movement. They found that functional sensory recovery of the inferior alveolar nerve resulted in...

Speech predictors after glossectomy

2 March 2022 | | ENTA-Head & Neck | classification, glossectomy, head and neck cancer, mouth neoplasms, speech intelligibility

This is a cross-sectional study from India where 69 patients were assessed for speech intelligibility and phonetics using an assessment tool in the local language. Volume defects were classified into thirds and the location of this defect noted. Not unsurprisingly,...