Risks of Thyroid Surgery - Find the Best Surgeon

Thyroid surgery has risks, but in skilled thyroid surgeon’s hands, thyroid surgery is not risky surgery. In this video, Dr. Gary Clayman, one of the most experienced thyroid cancer surgeons in the world) explains that the risks of thyroid surgery are much higher in inexperienced surgical hands. There are critical nerves to the voice box which lay underneath the thyroid gland, and the important parathyroid glands which control the bodies calcium levels that lay next to the thyroid gland. Keeping these critical structures from danger is the art of thyroid surgery and nothing is more important than the skill and experience of the surgeon. The other critical risk of thyroid surgery is incomplete surgery. A thyroid cancer may not be known until after the thyroid surgery is done and you have recovered for several days and the final pathology is available. You want to make sure that your first thyroid surgery is your final thyroid surgery and this is a very common problem we see-inexperienced thyroid surgeons who don’t take out all the cancer. Choosing the best thyroid surgeon is key decreasing the risks of thyroid surgery.