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~~