“…Vocal impairment subsequent to total laryngectomy seriously affects the patient’s communicative ability, leading to social and psychological disabilities that remarkably influence the patient’s health and quality of life [ 36 , 37 , 38 ]. This is widely reported in the literature [ 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 ] on the improvement in vocal and life quality in patients rehabilitated with tracheoesophageal prostheses. Our results confirmed these data, since TES patients obtained low values on the VAS scale.…”