Surgery for Hyoid Syndrome

Symptoms and Treatments
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The hyoid bone & any calcification of the stylo-hyoid ligaments shows up best in a CT, as long as the imaging goes down that far. We’ve had some members who’ve had excessively calcified thyroid cartilage too, just to throw something else in there!
There aren’t as many doctors who do the hyoid bone surgery as there are doing styloidectomies…I think unfortunately it’s one or the other done with most surgeries, but as far as I know possibly Dr Cognetti in PA might do both, & Dr Chetri at UCLA…Dr Dewan does just the hyoid I think, here’s a discussion:
Anyone have surgery with Dr. Dewan? Did hyoid reduction help ES? - General - Living with Eagle
And another aout both HBS and ES:
It’s a battle - General - Living with Eagle

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My hyoid pain was diagnosed by my doctor palpating outside, and then I convinced him to feel inside at the back of my throat. I was actually able to reach back into my throat and feel the greater horn of my hyoid poking up, and after my doctor did the same, he agreed that I needed another surgery.

Happy to report that over a year post-op, I am pain free and no longer have the feeling of something stuck in my throat!

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@k.p.c - I stay away from AI myself but when I Googled Hyoid Bone Syndrome symptoms, the AI result had the most concise answer so that’s what I used. The other info was all in research papers so not as straight forward to read.

Dr. Hackman also does hyoid bone surgeries so there’s one more doctor for you to consider.

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@emmy - That’s GREAT NEWS! I’m really glad your hyoid surgery made such a difference. Please remind me who did it for you.

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Thank you!

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Very fair. I’m wondering if people have had to have both done? @emmy did you also have a styloidectomy? Curious who did your hyoid surgery, as well.

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We’ve had a couple of members who’ve had both ES & HBS & have had surgery for both. One was @TML but he’s been absent from our forum since his surgeries which were done in Canada so we don’t know what his outcomes were. I recall he had two surgeries.

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