"Voice lift" Surgery 'makes you sound young'

[T_i_B]

:puke:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3641857.stm

Doctors in the United States are offering patients voice lifts to help them sound younger.

The surgery involves plumping up the vocal cords to turn old shaky voices into strong clear ones. The technique has previously only been used on people who have lost their voices through injury or disease.

But doctors say it is becoming popular with patients who have already had plastic surgery and want to sound as well as look younger than they are.

"There are people who pay $15,000 for a face lift and as soon as they open their mouth, they sound like they're 75," said Dr Robert Thayer Sataloff of the Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia.

[muchacho]

1. womb with a view

It's just a matter of time before they can contruct an adult size womb you can be inserted into to complete the regression.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Maybe instead of mutilating their larynxs, they should taking voice

training/lessons with singers in order to have stronger voices. Or even joining a chorus or choir could be an improvement.

[T_i_B]

3. Nah, too much like common sense.

Besides, what are the chances that some tone deaf eejit will use this sort of surgery to try to give themselves a singing voice? :eyes:

[SarahB]

4. People already ask if my mommy's home

What do they want babbling or for me to revert back to crying and raspberry noises?

[JohnKleeb]

5. lol that happens to you Sarah?

that sucks. Ive been mistaken for a girl before when I was younger in the flesh, dont know how it happened, and I am now mistaken for my dad on the phone/

[SarahB]

7. On occasion

I think it's just my slight mid-western accent in New England that comes across like that. Not a total Minnie Mouse or anything though. :)

[JVS]

6. Can they do it the other way to make me sound more gruff?

[LincolnMcGrath]

8. Julie Andrews wasn't very happy with her surgery, as I recall.