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<Chuckling> Liz... I'm absolutely positive you've gone and created the very first "email-graphic" of a pair of vocal cords ever! <giggle> AND, that's how I kinda picture the vocal cords myself.... (especially after seeing 'em on a video monitor) It's interesting hearing how quickly your MD has picked up on the research end of those vocal cord injection-thing. I wonder if he may not have discovered something beneficial for those with problems with non-fully-functional vocal cords by injecting Teflon (or possible other compounds, too? NEAT!)??? In the Kaiser Permanente waiting room, while in the waiting room (their Metropolitan facility, in Los Angeles, and the only one of their So. California facilities to provide this service), I've seen many NON-Parkies awaiting their collagen injections from which they get great benefit, i.e., cancer patients, accident victims, etc. So there's a broad-based need of this relatively simple, yet VERY beneficial treatment. Good luck with this procedure, and keep me posted, please. I care! Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] ---------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of Sackvill Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 10:42 PM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Re: <None> Hi Barb: I saw the throat-neck doc today and he's going to contact the UCLA doc with some questions about different ways this has been done. (Teflon being used after the first collagen injection, for example.) I learned something about vocal chords. They have to touch each other -- they're kind of like this ----> /\ <----- and evidently have to swing together to get the vibes that make the voice strong enough. Mine don't make it. They're a millimeter apart. Hard to believe that makes all the difference. Thanks for all your feedback about this. It really helped!! Liz S~~