Community Conversation => Transitioning => Facial feminization surgery => Topic started by: mistyjensen on November 20, 2018, 06:51:23 AM Return to Full Version
Title: Can a chondrolaryngoplasty reduce the appearance of a small trachea?
Post by: mistyjensen on November 20, 2018, 06:51:23 AM
Post by: mistyjensen on November 20, 2018, 06:51:23 AM
Hi,
I ask this question because I was born with a small trachea. I wonder if chondrolaryngoplasties can be safe and effective on patients like me with modest, visible trachea as compared to patients with preexisting larger visible tracheae. Or has the law of diminishing returns set in that surgeons can't remove more of the tracheal cartilage from the latter group without running a higher risk of complications compared to the latter?
I recently learned that my insurance approved many of the preauthorization requests for me to have FFS. The office of the surgeon, who will perform the FFS, and I are awaiting approval from the insurance on the preauthorization requests for a trachea shave and brow lift
I ask this question because I was born with a small trachea. I wonder if chondrolaryngoplasties can be safe and effective on patients like me with modest, visible trachea as compared to patients with preexisting larger visible tracheae. Or has the law of diminishing returns set in that surgeons can't remove more of the tracheal cartilage from the latter group without running a higher risk of complications compared to the latter?
I recently learned that my insurance approved many of the preauthorization requests for me to have FFS. The office of the surgeon, who will perform the FFS, and I are awaiting approval from the insurance on the preauthorization requests for a trachea shave and brow lift