Dr. Christopher Chang Recently Featured in Regional Serial Publication

Dr. Chang was recently featured in Healthy Happenings, a regional quarterly publication. The article mainly focused on one of Dr. Chang's patient whom he had diagnosed and successfully treated for laryngeal sensory neuropathy as a cause of her chronic cough for over 10 years.

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New Video Example of Tracheomalacia Causing Noisy Breathing

A new video has been posted of an examination revealing upper airway collapse (aka, tracheomalacia) causing a sound similar to the bark of a seal. Patient had this peculiar breathing sound only on exhalation (especially with coughing) even though he did not feel sick or have trouble breathing. Notably, the patient did not get correctly diagnosed for over 5 years during which he was unsuccessfully treated for asthma, allergy, and vocal cord dysfunction.

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Prescriptions Now Routinely Sent to Your Pharmacy Instantly!

Our office has successfully transitioned to prescribing all medications over the internet directly to your preferred pharmacy. Except for narcotics which require a hardcopy paper prescription, most prescriptions will be ready for you to pick up within 30 minutes!

What does that mean? It means that for many patients, by the time you leave our office and arrive at your pharmacy, your prescription will be ready to pick-up!

New Video on Coblation Tonsillectomy

Fauquier ENT has produced a new video on coblation tonsillectomy for patient educational purposes. It has been added to our YouTube page as well as below. The video shows 3 different views of the procedure, each view being more magnified. It's a little over 4 minutes long in its entirety. Check it out!

Video on How to Perform a Saline Sinus Flush

Given the dearth of video on the internet showing exactly how to perform a saline sinus flush using the NeilMed Sinus Rinse bottle, our practice has gone ahead and made one for educational purposes. It has been posted on our YouTube channel, but can be viewed below as well. Click here to go directly to the YouTube video. This link can also be found on our website here.

Instructions on making your own saltwater using home kitchen supplies can be found here.

Saline sinus flushes are generally recommended to patients who have chronic sinusitis or allergy problems which can help alleviate and/or even eliminate symptoms. Children from the age of 5 years and older are able to perform this procedure as well without any difficulty.



There are also devices that perform the same thing: