Top surgeon: ‘We can soon save your voice’
mainThis is Steven M. Zeitels, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Voice Center:
‘A lot of what’s considered aging isn’t really aging when it comes to voices. It’s long-term trauma. If someone has used their voice a lot, their vocal cords stiffen. We are working on materials — we just received our second patent — for synthetic materials we can put in the vocal cords to make them soft. It will be just as important what you put into a vocal cord as what you remove, and that’s the future within the next three to five years.’
Soon enough for the man below? Read more here.
I think what goes with a lot of singers as they age are not the cords so much as the diaphragmatic support.
Congrats! You have outsmarted a vocal surgeon… Haha—snark aside, look up presbylaryngeus. It’s a real thing.