Dr. Chang Quoted in the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal on 3/15/13 published a story on how voice therapy and vocal surgery can dramatically improve a person's vocal...

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...

Julie Andrews and Her "Botched Throat Surgery"

It has already been well-publicized that the former singing sensation Julie Andrews underwent some type of throat surgery in 1997 after whic...

New Video on Treatment of Hyper-Nasal Speech by Injection

Our office has created a new video that we have uploaded that shows how hyper-nasal speech can be corrected via injection of filler agents...

Nasal Sounding Speech

There are actually TWO different flavors of nasal sounding speech . HYPO-nasal speech is due to reduced or no nasal airflow and HYPER-nasal...

Congressman Putney with Vocal Cord Cancer

Media has reported that Congressman Lacey Putney, chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee in the House of Delegates, has early st...

Celebrity Chef Grant Achatz With Stage 4 Tongue Cancer

Chicago news recently published a story about their very own celebrity chef Grant Achatz who suffered from Stage 4B squamous cell carcinoma...

NY Yankees Mariano Rivera Undergoes Vocal Cord Surgery

NY Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera may have a fabulous right arm, but his voice was not exactly golden. He apparently had vocal cord polyps ...

New Webpage on Vocal Cord Cysts and Vocal Cord Polyps

We have uploaded a new webpage describing what vocal cord cysts and vocal cord polyps are as well as how they are treated. Vocal cord cysts...

New Webpage on Vocal Cord Nodules

Our office has created a new webpage on the evaluation and management of vocal cord nodules . Vocal cord nodules also known as Singer's...

Steroid Injection to Eliminate Vocal Cord Nodules

Vocal cord nodules are most always due to excessive voice use leading to "callous" formation on the vocal cord lining, much like ...

Jay Leno Has a Degree in Speech Therapy

Yes... It is true!!! Jay Leno admired by many for his comic personality had his beginnings as a speech therapist. He graduated in 1973 from ...