Voice and Swallowing
The Coastal Voice and Swallowing Center focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of laryngologic (voice box and throat) conditions. We offer a wide variety of in-office and operative procedures, and partner with speech pathologists in the greater New Jersey Shore area to get you the care you need.
Flexible Laryngoscopy
A small flexible camera is used to visualize the nose, throat, and vocal cords after numbing the nose and throat.
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Video Stroboscopy
The vocal cords are examined with a high power camera and strobe light to examine for abnormalities that may be causing voice problems.
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Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallow (FEES)
A test that evaluates your swallowing function using a camera as your swallow various consistencies of food.
In-Office Treatments
In-office, convenient treatments, including botox injection for spasmodic dysphonia, vocal cord augmentation for vocal cord paralysis, and biopsy of suspicious lesions.
Table of Contents
Vocal cord lesions- Vocal cord paresis/paralysis
- Presbyphonia (Aging voice)
- Spasmodic Dysphonia
- Professional Voice
- Vocal cord cancer
- Throat cancer
- Vocal Misuse and Abuse
- Laryngitis
- Swallowing difficulty (Dysphagia)
- Pain with swallowing (Odynophagia)
- Laryngopharyngeal / Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Zenker’s Diverticulum
- Cough
- Parkinson’s Disease related voice disorder
