What's botox? Kathy





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From: Pfannenstiel, Brenda <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 12:14 PM
Subject: Botox and vocal cords or speech improvement


>Hello--
>   I am a medical librarian and coordinator of the Kreamer Family Resource
>Center (a consumer health library for and about children) at Children's
>Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.  I have been asked to find out if anyone
"out
>there" has experience with using botulinum toxin (Botox) injections to
>improve speech.  I have searched the CPPARENT archives and have found a few
>glancing references to it.  If any of you have experience with Botox
>injections to the vocal cords or Botox used in any way to improve speech,
>and you don't mind sharing your experience or the name of the doctor who
>gives this treatment, please email me at [log in to unmask]
>   My requestor would like to know where this treatment is being done, and
>by whom, and if it appears to help.  There is little or nothing published
in
>the medical literature about Botox and speech improvement, so I am
appealing
>to you for any available information--collectively, you have a lot of
>expertise  (and first-hand experience) in CP therapies.
>   TIA,
>Brenda R. Pfannenstiel, MALS, MA
>Coordinator, Kreamer Family Resource Center
>The Children's Mercy Hospital
>2401 Gillham Road
>Kansas City, MO  64108
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