Long Term Outcome of Dr. Haben

[Lara1969]

Hi,

after extensive studies I tend to choose Dr. Haben for my voice surgery. I heard a lot of nice voices I read the threads about his surgeries.

But how are the voices one or five years after surgery? I am interested in the triple but I am not sure about the CTA part of his surgery.

Lara

[iKate]

I don't think you'll get 5 years but Eva has a long term update somewhere.

[Dena]

The procedure is permanent so after 3 to 6 months, you are pretty much hearing the final voice. it could show additional improvement over the first year. The problem is learning to use the voice correctly and not getting lazy and slipping into the old speech habits. If you have been using a trained voice before surgery and have it locked in, locking in the new voice shouldn't be much of a problem. If you take therapy after surgery, you may need months to years in order to lock the new voice in. I had a trained but not very good voice that I used for 35 years and because it was locked in, it was almost impossible for me to use the old voice. I attempted this a short time before voice surgery to understand why my trained voice was so bad and it took several attempts before I could make sounds in my old male voice.

Surgery is the easy part, using the voice correctly is the hard part.

[Cadence Jean]

I'd recommend having some sessions with a speech language pathologist, if you can afford it or (like in my case) your insurance will cover it. She helped me understand why my voice sounds different depending on my anxiety and stress level. Lol What I need to lock in is speaking slower, speaking from my diaphragm, while visualizing my vocal cords on the bridge of my nose. Then I sound awesome. When I'm stressed, I sound strangled. Lol The key(for me anyway) is to no longer talk from my throat but from diaphragm and head... Ymmv.