Celebrity Actors Who Have Received a Trach (Catherine Zeta Jones Included)

Image Taken From www.TopScarCream.com Tracheostomy (also known as trach) is when a hole is made in the midline neck directly into a person's windpipe ( watch video ). Although many people may shy away from this deforming procedure, it can be life-saving. On that note, here is a short list of famous celebrity actors who have undergone an emergency trach for one reason or another: Catherine Zeta-Jones Apparently, when she was a child, she had an emergency trach done. She still has a…

12/04/2012 1

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Breathing or Voice... You Can Only Have One...

Sounds like a choice taken out of a morbid horror movie... "You can ONLY have one... Your voice or your breath..." The victim than loses one or the other after making a choice getting either the tongue or head cut off with a knife. But patients with vocal cord paralysis on both sides are essentially faced with this very question. Normally, the vocal cords (TVC in picture below) found in the voicebox move to accommodate talking or breathing. When the vocal cords are a…

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Creative Ways to Wear a Scarf for Patients with a Trach or Ugly Neck Scar

[Watch the video below!!!] Given I operate on the neck not uncommonly... a common fear for a patient is how the incision will look afterwards. For a simple neck mass excision, the incision almost always heals just fine to the point nobody will notice the scar. However, this concern is multiplied a hundred-fold when a patient undergoes a tracheostomy (hole in neck) for severe obstructive sleep apnea or for some other airway reason. It could even be a laryngectomy where the entire voi…

7/07/2012 1

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Another Rock Singer With Injured Voice

On Sept 16, 2011, the Stone Temple Pilots had to cancel their tour because their lead singer Scott Weiland was placed on voice rest due to damaged vocal cords at risk for permanent damage. Specifically, the doctors at University of Cincinnati Voice Health Center determined that he had scarring on his left vocal cord and a tremendously inflamed right vocal cord. The left vocal cord scarring is likely from past vocal trauma that did not heal properly and is now permanently damaged whereas th…

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