Abstract
Background:
Patients with narrow high-arch palate present with limited response to standard septal, turbinate, and valve procedures for nasal obstruction.
Objective:
To measure the effectiveness of minimally invasive nasal endoscopic (MINE) Lefort I osteotomy among subjects with narrow high-arched palate in managing nasal obstruction.
Methods:
Prospective cohort study was performed where subjects with narrow high-arched palate underwent MINE distraction osteogenesis maxillary expansion (DOME) from August 2019 to January 2021. Nasal obstruction symptom evaluation (NOSE) score, mean time to opioid cessation, and mean duration of cranial nerve V2 hypoesthesia were evaluated.
Results:
Among 12 subjects, the. mean NOSE score decreased from 58.89 to 15.83 (p = 0.004). There were no complaints of lip mobility or deformity.
Conclusion:
MINE-DOME can reduce nasal obstruction in a certain phenotype of patients and further improve patient-centric outcomes by limiting the approach to the Lefort I osteotomy to an endoscopic nasal approach.
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