Jon Bon Jovi Reveals Details Of Sound Band Operations That Are Undergoing To Take Three And A Half Years Of Recovery

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JAKARTA - Jon Bon Jovi's decision to maintain his musical legacy resulted in a surprising diagnosis: one of his sound bands is atrophy as if he was "dead".

This caused the Bon Jovian frontman to undergo a complicated surgical procedure which he called the beginning of his recovery period of three and a half years.

In a recent interview on the How To Nail With Elizabeth Day podcast, Jon explained, he was looking for a surgeon who later found the problem. The solution is not an ordinary operation, but a surgical implant on the outside of the sound band to ensure the two can close properly when talking or singing.

"I'm looking for a surgeon, who explained to me that one of my sound bands really had an atrophy The voice was dead and that he could do implant surgery on the outside of the sound band so that both of them could close properly again," said Jon.

He also revealed details of the implant procedure. "If you look closely at the bottom of my throat, there are scars. That's where they cut it. They go right through the front. They put two pieces of Gore-Tex, which is plastic, outside the sound band but in the neck that covers the muscles outside," he explained.

The procedure was carried out because the muscles that pushed the sound band to meet during pronunciation did not work symmetrically.

The surgeon promised one thing: his condition would be better, but the recovery process turned out to be much longer than expected. "I wish I knew that the recovery would take three and a half years, I might say, 'Thank you, good night'," said the 63-year-old vocalist.

However, stable progress kept him from losing hope. After six weeks of postoperation, Jon underwent speech therapy. He explained, for the previous seven or eight years, he was unconsciously compensated for the weakness of the problematic sound band. The therapist must teach him from the start, from how to speak, to finally produce a voice that resembles a song.

Now, with the release of a new album, "Forever" (2024), as well as plans for a concert tour next year, Jon Bon Jovi feels confident enough to return to the stage.

"I'm pretty sure now to know that I can sell tickets. I didn't want to do it at all a year ago," he said.

His current confidence shows that a long and difficult recovery period has now paid off.