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This site represents my opinions and is my attempt to inform you, the visitor, about voice disorders from a physician's perspective. It is specifically not meant to establish a doctor-patient relationship with you.
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Please be aware that a delay in a response to email can be common. If you have spam blocking on your email, please allow all replies from any voicedoctor.net address; the response might not come from the same address to which you sent it.
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New directives of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) laws in the United States specify confidentiality rules of medical practices. By definition, email is not confidential unless encrypted.
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Voice is a vibration (roughly 60 to 1100 vibrations per second [Hz]) within the audible frequency range. In the human, voice is largely produced by the true vocal cords, but it is possible to vibrate other structures and create a voice.
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Medialization laryngoplasty
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Information for patients considering an injection medialization procedure into their vocal cords. For Botox injections see the spasmodic dysphonia page.
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Information for patients considering surgery to feminize their voice. Patients are typically male-to-female transgender patients who have tried or are also trying voice therapy.
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Information for patients considering a surgery on their voice box to reduce the size of the Adam’s apple. While not really a surgery to change the pitch of the voice, it often accompanies surgery that changes the pitch of the voice.