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Grommets are small ventilation tubes inserted primarily for management of Eustachian Tube Dysfunction (ETD).
ETD can lead to many issues such as recurrent acute otitis media (AOM), glue ears, retracted ear drum and barotrauma.
A Myringoplasty is an operation to repair a hole ( perforation ) of the eardrum.
A perforation is usually caused by an infection in your middle ear that bursts through your eardrum. It can also be caused by trauma, for example, being hit across your ear or by placing an object in your ear.
Often a perforated eardrum does not cause any problems but it can lead to repeated ear infections and poorer hearing.
Exostoses are bony growths inside the ear canal as a result of long term exposure to cold, wind or water. This is very common among swimmers and surfers.
Exotoses grow slowly over time, when they reach a certain size they may block the ear canal causing water and debris to get trapped inside leading to hearing loss and infection.
The surgery is a procedure to remove the exotoses and widen the ear canal.
If the exostoses are causing recurrent infections or significant conduction hearing loss, patients may be recommended for surgery.
Post operative recovery time can be up to 5 days.
Its often the case that more than one follow up is required to ensure that the canal is healing properly.
A mastoidectomy is a surgical procedure that removes disease mastoid air cells ( located behind the ear ) They are air filled cells made of bone that resemble honeycomb. The procedure is also used to remove an abnormal growth of skin in the middle ear mastoid cavity known as cholesteatoma.
There are variations of mastoidectomy
1. Simple/ Cortical mastoidectomy
2. Modified radical mastoidectomy
3. Radical mastoidectomy
CI is a small complex electronic device or implantable hearing aid to help a profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing person.
It does not restore normal hearing but instead, it can give a deaf person a useful representation of sounds in the environment and help them to understand speech.
It can be a choice for people who have severe hearing loss from inner-ear damage and can’t hear well with hearing aids.
A cochlear implant sends sounds past the damaged part of the ear straight to the hearing nerve, called the cochlear nerve. For most people with hearing loss that involves the inner ear, the cochlear nerve works. But the nerve endings, called hair cells, in the part of the inner ear called the cochlea, are damaged.
Cochlear implants use a sound processor that fits behind the ear and pulls in sounds from outside the ear. It sends sound signals to a receiver that’s been placed under the skin behind the ear.
