Thyroid cartilage reduction? I am a male with a large adam's apple (see picture). I would like it reduced in size, while necessarily maintaining protrusion. Is this a particularly risky procedure? Can it be performed without making an incision directly over the adam's apple (maybe above it instead)? Would you do it?
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Yes, significant weight gain will hide that. But, it will also significantly alter your entire face and body (and isn't so great for your health). However, we can remove the Adam's apple fairly easily using a technique I designed and published. This should let that be much smaller without...
You have a long thin neck, so the normal features of your laryngeal skeleton are visible.
The top prominence seems to be your Thyroid lamina (the Adam's apple). It can be reduced, as we do for trans-women.
The lower prominence is probably your cricoid cartilage, which cannot be interfered with...
Thank you for your question and I'm sorry to hear about the issue you are having. As you have indicated, it looks like the skin has stuck down to the cartilage. In order to try to help improve this, it may require a revision surgery where muscle and fat is brought in from the sides of the neck...
