And finally, most screening devices are ineffective because anyone who is serious about getting contraband on an airplane can smuggle it in a body cavity or a surgicalimplant.
In one type of laryngoplasty, an implant made of a surgical polymer is placed inside the tracheal wall (as support) to medialize the affected vocal cord.
But Stephen Dorrell MP, chair of the Health Select Committee, told the Today programme's Sarah Montague when there is a clinical need for the faulty implant to be removed, making the woman go through a second surgical operation is "bad medicine".