* My note:  The fact of visible improvement in swallowing with upward pull on platysma (in opposite vector of INAPPROPRIATE tension which was employed in my surgery) is ABSOLUTE PROOF  that failure to release this muscle with a transverse incision is the cause of my swallowing disorder.  Of course, I am not able to FULLY correct this by manual manipulation of the tissue with fingers or forceps because it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to place that much opposing force to FIXED and AGGRESSIVELY EXCISED tissue.   It takes all the strength in my fingers simply to grasp and relieve this tension for a few seconds, as THE TISSUE ITSELF IS SO SCANT AND UNDER SO MUCH TENSION THAT IT PULLS RIGHT THROUGH MY GRASP. 
Grasping sufficient tissue between forceps for the MBS did not allow a strong enough hold, as this would have cut right through my flesh.  This is not a difficult problem for any surgeon to understand.  It is so blatantly EXTREME that only a surgeon who is deliberately trying to minimize such a catastrophe would fail to recognize its seriousness  and functional repercussions..  It is very odd, indeed, that my ENT  as well as the speech pathologist who performed and read the study, consider this to be "tangible" evidence of a specific muscle (platysma) is exerting tension sufficient enough to alter the internal structures of the neck (tongue base and epiglottis)  to cause dysphagia.  The force (tangible and measurable) demonstrates an improvement (tangible difference in the position of internal structures when force is applied).  Yet this study was IGNORED by the very surgeons who have the most experience with this anatomy.  How do they explain this?