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Purpose: In maxillofacial rehabilitation,speech evaluation is important and the acoustic evaluation of vowels is often taken place in patients with maxillofacial resection.Those patients often suffer from trismus as a result of tumor resection and/or radiotherapy.The degree of mouth opening affects the oral function which include speech articulation.The aim of this study was to evaluate the acoustic characteristics of vowels articulation in trismus simulated condition.