Presently this page is limited to audio examples of pitch surgeries. All of the "Before" recordings were made with professional equipment in my office. Many of the "After" recordings were made over the telephone or on the patient's computer and this will affect the audio quality.

0001 Before and after voice recording

Patient age
43 years
Patient gender
Male to Female
Prior voice surgery
None
Year of surgery
2003
Follow up
11 months
Dr. Thomas' comments

As the first patient, she had the feminization laryngoplasty surgery and I was very conservative in what I removed. We did to revision surgeries taking off a bit more of the vocal cords each time.

0004 Before and after voice recording

Patient age
41 years
Patient gender
Male to Female
Prior voice surgery
None
Year of surgery
2004
Follow up
22 months
Dr. Thomas' comments

She initially had a complication from a Trach shave where her pitch dropped. She then had several procedures trying to correct this including cricothyroid approximation, vocal cord webbing and a laser procedure. Her initial voice is after all of these procedures.

0007 Before and after voice recording

Patient age
50 years
Patient gender
Male to Female
Prior voice surgery
None
Year of surgery
2005
Follow up
5 months
Dr. Thomas' comments

She had a revision feminization laryngoplasty surgery to try and further improve her voice after this recording but I have no further follow-up on the outcome.

0008 Before and after voice recording

Patient age
48 years
Patient gender
Male to Female
Prior voice surgery
None
Year of surgery
2005
Follow up
35 months
Dr. Thomas' comments

She had a previous cricothyroid approximation which raised her pitch slightly. The "before" recording here is after the cricothyroid approximation surgery. Between the 2 surgeries she had some improvement in pitch.