Abstract
Pharyngeal obstruction by adenotonsillar hypertrophy interferes with dento-facial development, sleep quality, learning process, and leads to changes in chewing, swallowing, and speech, such as dysphagia, hyponasal voice or distortions/interferences in utterance, etc.An important repercussion of adenotonsillar hypertrophy is sleep-disordered breathing, especially obstructive sleep apnea (O…