Why Do Biopsy Results Take So Long? [video]

One of the most common questions I get after a surgical procedure is how long it takes before biopsy results are back... especially when a m...

I Am Taking a Reflux Medication & My Symptoms are Not Improving!

On an almost daily basis, I get an email from somebody with the same exact question or near-variation: "Dear Dr. Chang,   I have been t...

Reflux Medication Addiction

When a patient suffers from reflux , there is an astounding array of very effective medications to induce acid suppression for symptom relie...

How Much Tongue Can Be Removed Without Affecting Function?

Unfortunately, whether through trauma or cancer concerns, parts of the tongue may be removed. When a part of the tongue is removed, the prin...

Split Tongue (aka Forking the Tongue, Snake Tongue, etc)

Photo Source Here Splitting the tongue into two halves is a relatively rare type of body modification, though it is becoming more common. To...

What to Do and Care After Vocal Cord Surgery

When surgery is performed on the vocal cords, there are some very specific after-care that is required to allow for optimal healing. In ord...

Can You Spot the Gorilla in the CT Scan?

I am not going to go into too much detail regarding a recent news article regarding how 83% of radiologists (physicians who specialize is lo...

How Much Radiation Exposure Occurs with a CT Scan? X-ray? Sunlight?

A common concern now is how much radiation exposure occurs with common radiological testing such as x-rays and CT scans, especially given th...

Does Acupuncture Help With Allergies?

Image from Acupuncture For All According to one study , it does... Performed by researchers in China and Korea, they divided 238 patients su...

17 Year Old Girl Dies After Tonsillectomy

Patients sometimes focus too much on the intricacies and risks of the surgery itself and not realize that subsequent care AFTER surgery may ...

How Much Caffeine is Present in Coffee? Decaff? Chocolate?

©  Radu Razvan Gheorghe  |  Dreamstime Stock Photos There are quite a few ENT problems that can potentially be due to caffeine intake. Even ...

Negative Ear Pressure Causing Inability to Pop a Clogged Ear

Have you ever closed the lid on an air-tight container containing a left-over hot meal and stuck it in the refrigerator? And than when you t...

Just How Contagious is the Flu (and Other Viral Infections)?

Everybody knows the flu and other viral infections are contagious, but did you wonder just how contagious??? Well, here are some facts glea...

Uvula Piercing

It happens, but thankfully rare... Ear piercing I will do, but truly uvula piercing is not something I would recommend given a whole host o...

Speech Impediment to Great Singing on American Idol

During January 2013 auditions of Season 12 of American Idol, there was Lazaro Arbos who has a terrible stutter when he talks, but sings bea...