This information explains how to suction your laryngectomy stoma and clean your laryngectomy tube. It’s important to keep your airway open so you can breathe. Suctioning your stoma will keep it free ...

A tracheostomy tube helps you breathe after tracheotomy surgery, which creates a stoma (an opening) in your neck. A laryngectomy tube keeps a stoma open during healing. Tracheotomy and laryngectomy ...

Patients who have a laryngectomy need help adapting to complex changes including managing their airway, speech loss, body image changes, and altered smell and taste This four-part series on ...

A laryngectomy is a major surgery that is done to remove your voice box, or larynx. Your larynx is the part of your throat that contains your voice box. It’s located at the upper end of your windpipe ...