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The Importance of Voice in Transplantation

Laryngeal transplantation is a radical surgery to replace the larynx. The first target patients will be people who have severe structural disease. Martin Bertchel has shown that in this type of radical surgery, the actual sound might change,. but the patient, pig, or person still has a voice. But in the case of us humans, exactly whose voice will that be? This is a major question about laryngeal transplants.

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