Table 1 Postoperative functional results of speech and swallowing scores
Score | Speech | Swallowing |
|---|---|---|
5 | all speech is understood (excellent) | full diet |
4 | speech is sometimes not understood (good) | soft diet |
3 | speech can be understood when conversational content is already known (fair) | liquid diet |
2 | speech can sometimes be understood (poor) | combined oral and feeding tube |
1 | nothing is understood (bad) | exclusively by feeding tube |