Robert Bastian: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- otolaryngologist and expert in treating retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction
- Quoted on
- Cosmetic procedures & aesthetics
- Press citations held
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“If we think of it mechanistically, there is a sphincter, which is a circular muscle...people with retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction have normal antegrade function—they swallow; none of them really have any trouble swallowing—but they can't burp, and some of them can't vomit.”
Where Robert Bastian has been quoted
- ‘Daily misery’—why some people can’t burp, and how Botox comes to the rescuescientificamerican.com · 29 Sept 2026
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