M. Schar, T. Omari, C. Woods, Lauren R Footner, N. Marshall, C. Cock, A. Thompson, T. Nguyen, T. Athanasiadis, E. Ooi
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Abstract
Dysphagia post head and neck cancer (HNC) multimodality treatment is attributed to reduced pharyngeal strength. We hypothesized that pharyngeal tongue base augmentation for dysphagia (PAD therapy) would increase pharyngeal pressures during swallowing thereby improving swallow symptoms.