Quote from: Myself on April 15, 2010, 01:59:33 PM
yeah I know, but I thought when going for a surgery you would go for a more dramatic one.. as I said, still sounds great!
Is that the reason for wanting to do the web surgery? (CTA)
CTA is not web. Web is when the front of the chords is sewn together to shorten the part of the chords through which air passes. Femlar sometimes results in a web if the front of the chords stretch out after they are shortened.
CTA grabs the lower part of your voice box and hikes it up and sews it in the front to the upper part. In extreme cases, it will pitch a person up permanently into falsetto. It puts tension on the chords by lenghtening and stretching them.
If you think of it like a guitar string, femlar is like trying to fret the string to achieve a higher pitch becaseu of th shorter distance. The only problem is, in some people, the voice box and chords are pliable, like rubber bands, so they may stretch out tand have little tension, so the pitch doesn't go up much or maybe not at all.
CTA is like turning the tuning key to put more tension on the string. Again, thevocal chord may stretch, and then the person can even find themselves locked itno a monotone, without the ability to modulate.
But one of the best voice surgery results I've ever heard is when a woman had CTA, and it stretched, and she was locked into a lowish monotone, and then Dr. Thomas did the Femlar. Maybe there is a benefit to having the chords pre stretched. Maybe they only stretch so much and then you can start getting good results. I asked Dr, Thomas which to try first, and he said to do the Femlar first, and then maybe try the CTA if the Femlar does not work. So here we are. I'm thinking about going to Dr. Mayer for it because he does it while you are awake and you make noises until it gets to the pitch you want and then you signal him to fix it in place there. But then it could stretch and you are stuck . It's risky.
