{"id":124715,"date":"2017-04-13T10:04:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T14:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=124715"},"modified":"2017-04-13T10:09:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T14:09:35","slug":"patients-voice-restored-thanks-fat-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/04\/patients-voice-restored-thanks-fat-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient\u2019s Voice Restored Thanks to His Own Fat Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Patient\u2019s Voice Restored Thanks to His Own Fat Cells\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nz8ODqTnh2k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After years of having difficulty speaking because of a damaged vocal cord, Ed Favolise had his voice restored thanks to an unlikely source. UConn Health\u2019s Dr. Denis Lafreniere, chief of the Division of Otolaryngology, and Dr. Andrew Chen, chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery, used Favolise\u2019s own fat cells from his abdomen to repair his vocal cord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of having difficulty speaking because of a damaged vocal cord, Ed Favolise had his voice restored thanks to an unlikely source. Watch the video to see how UConn Health\u2019s team of experts used Favolise\u2019s own fat cells from his abdomen to repair his vocal cord and restore his quality of life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":124734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1868],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1867],"class_list":["post-124715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meds"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 13:52:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/124734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124715"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=124715"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=124715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}