Therapeutic Services:

• Laryngeal micro-spot laser surgery adds to the precision of vocal fold surgery, allowing for improvement of vocal function.
  
  
• Phonosurgery is specialized laryngeal surgery to voice function.
  
  
• Botox Injections reduce the tight, squeezed phonation and disruption of voice breaks caused by spasmodic dysphonia.
  
  
• Behavioral voice therapy, which is based on objective measures of vocal function and visual examination of the larynx, enables us to prescribe therapies to maximize vocal quality.
  
  
• Treatment of early laryngeal cancer emphasizes early diagnosis and treatments that conserve vocal function.
  
  
• Laryngeal reconstruction is often conducted to repair an injured larynx or a narrow larynx, subglottis, or trachea.
  
  
• Rehabilitation of vocal fold scarring, which can be achieved through both medical and surgical methods, is designed to improve vibration of the vocal folds.
  
  
• Treatment of vocal fold bowing and other voice changes related to aging includes restoring the shape of the vocal folds and/or retraining vocal technique to compensate for the aging process.
  
  
• Thyroplasty, arytenoid adduction, and vocal fold augmentation are specialized procedures used to restore voice following vocal fold paralysis.
  
  

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