Your voice is personal. It carries your identity, your authority, your mood. But when the vocal folds get damaged — through surgery, a bad intubation, years of overuse, or disease — the problem runs deeper than a hoarse throat. For some people, losing your voice means losing your job. Your social life. A piece of who you are. We have drugs for inflammation. We have voice therapy and vocal rest. What we don’t have is a way to rebuild the actual tissue once scar tissue takes over. The vocal fold can’t vibrate the way it’s supposed to, and nothing we have fixes that. That’s where regenerative medicine comes in. Specifically,…