Femlar Voice Surgery

[bananechrissie]

Hello,

what do you think about Feminisation Laryngoplasty in Portland, done by Dr. Thomas?
He produces good results.

It is very difficult to find someone who had a feminisation laryngoplasty.

Greetings,

bananechrissie

[Boca.Lisa]

I may be biased as im 1 week post op having gone to korea for vfs-aas with Dr. Kim at Yeson, BUT, Dr. Thomas' methods felt very invasive to me when I researched it.

[bananechrissie]

Yes, I saw you posts. Dr. Kim seems to be great!

[Mogu]

I have been considering Dr. Thomas as well, I got some answers in a recent email from him

The feminization laryngoplasty effectively includes a much more complete tracheal shave than the typical tracheal shave. It is not a problem if you already had one, but otherwise having a tracheal shave is just an additional expense since I removed much more of that cartilage in the feminization laryngoplasty.

I recommend not having elected general anesthesia for at least three months after the feminization laryngoplasty in order to try and avoid compromising the tightness of the vocal cords. I have no problem doing the surgery even a week after a previous surgery.

In general, I find the surgery easier to perform on younger patients.

I have done 120 of the surgeries. I have not published or studied in exact rate of complications. It is a newer surgery and is more extensive surgery than other types of voice change surgery so I would say that it does have a higher risk of complications than other surgeries. One of the main risks is infection and I have people stay around for one week after surgery in order to monitor for this.

I published a paper on about the first 80 patients in the typical patient gained about six semi tones on the piano. That is about the average difference between male and female voices. However, that represents a range of results from a few people who didn't change it all to some who had higher pitches. Part of that also depends on body size. The smaller you are, the higher the pitch that seems to be obtained. I do have many voices on my website that you can listen to for a sense of the quality of the voice and the range of outcomes.

I place the incision in a skin crease overlying the thyroid cartilage.

I'd love to hear if anyone else knows the guy