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About clinic

Yeson Voice Center is the first and largest voice care center available in Korea providing customized and specialized voice management services through its cutting-edge voice examination program and advanced medical equipment. Since its foundation in 2003, Yeson Voice Center is striving to provide the best medical treatment services and developing the most advanced treatment system for voice. Yeson Voice Center has earned ‘Act Award’ by the National Institutes of Health in 2002 followed by the certificate award by the Minister of Health and Welfare in 2015. In 2009, YVC was appointed as one of the best medical facilities for promoting international patients being also appointed as the medical institution of charity by KHIDI in 2011.
The major laryngeal diseases being treated in Yeson Voice Center include vocal nodule, vocal polyp, vocal cyst, granulomatus laryngitis, reinke edema, sulcus vocalis, laryngeal pappiloma, laryngeal cancer, laryngopharyngeal reflux and so forth. In addition, scarred vocal folds, hoarse voice, unstable phonation can be diagnosed and treated through the voice treatment program available in the clinic.

Specialized Medical Dept

1) Vocal Fold Shortening and Advancement of Anterior Commisure (VFS AAC)
The new method of voice feminization surgery, called “Vocal Fold Shortening and Advancement of Anterior Commissure,” is the world’s first treatment that does not incise the skin and get the same result of modifying the vocal cord to a female shape using an endoscope. This procedure which was developed by Yeson Voice Center was presented at the Voice Foundation Association in the United States on May 29, 2007.
2) Percutaneous Injection Laryngoplasty
Percutaneous Injection Laryngoplasty is a new method developed to improve the operating procedures using electromyogram. Without the need of anesthesia, this new process preserves major vocal membrane and vocal layer, and allows for inserting an organic prosthesis in the right place. The electrymyogrammic needle helps to spot and insert the material, improving the voice dramatically almost permanently.
3) Microlaryngeal surgery+PDL
Microlaryngeal surgery, or phonomicrosurgery, has been developed since 19th Century as the observation of the larynx through reflecting mirrors began. Laryngeal mirrors (tools with small mirrors attached which are used to see into the larynx through the mouth) provided the most significant part of understanding and treating vocal fold diseases.
4) Multichannel Phonokinetic Evaluation System
Multichannel Phonokinetic Evaluation System is newly developed by Yeson Voice Center to evaluate the phonatory pattern and substantiated the phonatory muscle usage and kinetic aspect of respiratory phasing during classical singing.

Medical Dept

Background of Chief Director

The Graduate of the Catholic University of Korea, School of Medicine
Newyork center for voice and swallowing disorder, Columbia university Intern
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of the Catholic University of Korea
Clinical fellow, national institute neurologic disorder(NINDS) / NIH, Laryngerl & speech center, USA
Special Act Award by NIH
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of the Catholic University of Korea
Registered specialist at the National Spasmodic Dysphonia Association
Reviewer of American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Medical Equipment

1. Mutichannel Phokinetic Evaluation System (MPES)
2. Pulsed-Dye Laser (PDL)
3. 2cc Luer-Lock 27G microscopic needle
4. 1:20000 epineprine with sterile saline

Insurance Company

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