Klarinet Archive - Posting 000056.txt from 2006/09

From: "Sheri Rolf" <slrolf@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] soft palate air leak
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:03:49 -0400

Walter,

Adenoids can certainly regrow, but it really isn't all that common. Adenoid
tissue usually atrophies by adulthood with relatively few exceptions.
Tissue laxity increases with age. Weight gain can also affect the soft
palate by simply creating more tissue bulk. Conversely, weight loss
decreases the palatal bulk, and sometimes you can see transient
velopharyngeal incompetence following a major weight loss.

So, my bet is that the adenoids are still gone but that you are older than
you were and maybe a couple of pounds heavier as well?? :-)

Sheri

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Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:44 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] soft palate air leak

In a message dated 9/7/2006 8:54:50 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
slrolf@-----.net writes:
Sometimes, during the course of a tonsillectomy, tissue from the soft
palate
is inadvertently removed. If enough is removed, then the nasopharynx won't
properly/fully close. This seems to have been more prevelant during the
surgical era that you describe
This happened to me, as a teenager. My doctor finally prevailed on my
parents to have my tonsils removed, when I was a senior in High School,
since I had
persistent ear and throat infections. After the operation, when I played, I

had a noticeable, noisy air leak, that continued for several months. (It
also
felt funny).

I remember being stopped in a scholarship audition, by one of the teachers,

who asked "What's that NOISE?". Very embarrassing to a 17 year old.

It eventually stopped by itself. Maybe my adenoids grew back?

Walter
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