General Practitioners

• Warts

Internists

• Endoscopy
  BVI services are divided between evaluation and management (E&M) and procedures. E&M refers to time spent understanding the problem, doing a simple screening examination, and discussing the diagnosis and plan with patient and family. A procedure most often refers to endoscopy such as videostroboscopy (to evaluate voice disorders), videoendoscopic swallowing study, esophagoscopy, or tracheoscopy. Other procedures include Botox injection for spasmodic dysphonia, biopsy of a lesion, injection of voice gel or steroid, and so forth.

Radiologist

• Chemotherapy
  Methods for treating larynx cancer include surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. For smaller tumors in particular, laser excision through the mouth can offer dramatic advantages. BVI clinicians have a large and noteworthy experience with larynx cancer, including not only endoscopic laser approaches but also (when tumors are very advanced) partial or total laryngectomy.

Surgeons

• Otolaryngology
  To be eligible for consideration, an applicant must (by fellowship start date) be board-eligible or board-certified by the American Academy of Otolaryngology. He or she must be aiming for a career in laryngology with interest and aptitude in not only the medicine and surgery of the laryngopharynx, but also in voice disorders and vocal phenomenology. Ordinarily the latter requirement would include the ability to match pitch, musical aptitude, and in the best case, experience as a singer.

Plastic Surgeons

• Botox
  We have successfully assisted our 700th patient in finding relief from R-CPD, or the inability to burp! Thank you to our patients who shared their success stories on places such as TikTok, Facebook and Reddit.  We will continue to offer tele-conversations, in-office consultations, and Botox injections for those who are interested in learning more, or who are ready to find relief.

Dermatologists

• Lesions
  Lesions or conditions that arise in the larynx but, unlike vocal fold injuries, usually without correlation to voice use. These include...