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Technical Strategies – High Speed Burring in Secondary Tracheal Shaves

Chondrolaryngoplasty or tracheal shave surgery is the only structural aesthetic change that can be done on the neck. (since the thyroid cartilage is the only protruding non-soft tissue prominence) While commonly identified with transgender surgery today the tracheal shave procedure can also be performed in cis males who have too much Adam’s apple projection. (Usually Read More…

Platysmal Muscle Flap Camouflage in Tracheal Shave Surgery

The reduction of a tracheal prominence by cartilage shaving, medically known as a chondrolaryngoplasty, is a procedure that is best known for its use in transgender male to female patients. In my experience it has been used equally for the traditional male who has an extremely large tracheal protrusion. But I have yet to see Read More…

Facial Feminization Surgery – Lower Third Reshaping – IV. Neck

Tracheal Shave A prominent Adam’s apple or thyroid cartilage disrupts the profile of the neck and is the one sure sign of being male. It is reduced by a procedure that truly reflects how it is done…the tracheal shave. The prominent union of the two halves of the thyroid cartilage is shaved down through either Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Tracheal Shave of the Male Neck

Background: Reduction of a prominent thyroid cartilage is technically known as a chondrothyroplasty. It is better known as a tracheal shave and it gets its name because the prominence is indeed shaved down with a scalpel. This is possible because the thyroid prominence is cartilage which only gets much harder later in life. The tracheal Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Male Tracheal Shave

Background:  The development of the thyroid cartilages are affected by the level of testosterone and associated gender. This explains their prominence in the neck of men which women do not have. It also explains the deeper male voice due to the larger size of the voice box. This is one of the many structural gender Read More…

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