Trends come and go but there is one trend popularized by celebrities like Katy Perry and Kim Kardashian that actually can have long-term health consequences. NY1’s Erin Billups filed the following report.

We hear it from celebrities all the time, it's called vocal fry - a sort of low, vibrating of the voice at the end of a sentence.

Speaking this way has become a noticeable trend among teens to 30-somethings. But vocal fry can be more than annoying.

Michael Pitman, Director of Laryngology at The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and the Voice Institute at Mount Sinai says he's seeing more patients coming in with vocal fried cords.

"When you use vocal fry or you don’t support your voice with your air, you kind of talk like that a little bit and the vocal fry causes trauma," Dr. Pitman says.

That Kardashian-like drawl may just be the result of a late night out but Pitman says it means the vocal folds are vibrating chaotically.

"If you see somebody jogging and they have great jogging technique they can probably jog forever and not really get hurt. Then you see these people jogging a little tilted. They’re eventually going to get say knee injuries or back injuries and the same thing with the voice,” Dr. Pitman explains.

Pitman says vocal fry can cause long-term problems like swollen vocal folds, lesions on the folds, and general difficulty or discomfort speaking.

"Then you’re going to have to push even harder to get voice out and that causes more trauma to where you’re completely losing your voice and maybe you can't come back from that unless we treat you medically or operate on you and remove those lesions,” Dr. Pitman notes.

Plus, vocal frying your voice doesn't always project an air of confidence.

“I don't like it, particularly. I don't think it makes for a very resonant voice,” said one New Yorker when asked about the trend.

“You want to try and avoid that and have a nice clean voice and in addition people will notice it [Same thing with teachers] when a teacher's voice is not working correctly there’s been studies to show that kids don't receive the information the same way, they don’t pay attention in the same way,” Dr. Pitman points out.

Pitman says teachers are among the worst unintentional abusers of their voices. We’ll explore that in next week’s report.