Patients of all ages, from infants to the elderly, are affected by ENT problems. Our staff at Ahmedabad Health Physicians: Advanced ENT Services is here to help you with whatever issues you or a loved one may be facing.
Our otolaryngologists deliver high-quality care close to patients' homes. Ear, nose, and throat specialists use microscopic, endoscopic, and laser procedures to restore hearing and healthy function to the ear, nose, and throat systems.
List of Ear Treatments
The surgical operation performed to remove a tumor from the inner ear canal is known as acoustic neuroma surgery. A tumor in this location might compress the cochlear nerve (the hearing nerve), resulting in hearing loss and possibly tinnitus in the patient (a ringing or ringing in the ear). They may experience vertigo, eyesight, and balance issues. Surgical intervention is used to remove the tumor. Approaches such as translabyrinthine, middle fossa, or retrosigmoid may also be investigated.
An ear canal that is closed or undeveloped at birth is referred to as aural atresia. The surgical building of an ear canal and an eardrum restores inner ear hearing loss in aural atresia repair. A tiny skin graft from the patient is used to line the newly constructed ear canal.
Cholesteatomas are cysts that form behind the eardrum in the middle section of the ear, where sound waves are transmitted from the eardrum to the inner ear via the chain of ossicles. These cysts can destroy the bones of the middle ear if they develop large enough. If left untreated, this can result in hearing loss. Mastoidectomy is a surgical procedure that can be used to eliminate this tumor.
Unlike hearing aids, cochlear implants are implanted through surgery.Cochlear implants are small electronic devices that help people who are hearing impaired. Find out what a cochlear implant surgery is like. It is used by people who suffer from severe to profound hearing loss (decreased hearing ability). Cochlear implants are recommended for people for whom hearing aids offer little benefit.Cochlear implants may well be used in adults, children, and even babies who were born with this impairment , or manifested it after learning to speak.
Congenital atresia repair is a reconstructive procedure that generally necessitates numerous evaluations, tests, and surgical phases. It entails removing bone and opening up the bones of the ears. The lost ear components are then replaced with skin grafts, which are usually taken from the thigh or lower belly.
IRupture in the eardrum or an abnormality in the external ear canal causes otorrhea. When the leaking is caused by trauma or previous ear surgery, this is frequently the case. The fluid goes down the eustachian tube and manifests as a distinct rhinorrhea if there is no such abnormality. In order to stop the leak, surgical treatment requires reconstructing the dura and tegmen.
Ear drainage can be caused by a variety of factors, including an ear infection, a burst eardrum, or an ear tube that causes fluid to accumulate in an abscess.
An aural hematoma is a blood clot that forms between the ear's cartilage and the skin. It usually starts as a self-inflicted injury caused by your pet scratching and shaking his head. All conditions that induce otitis externa are among the underlying causes (infection of the external ear canal).
It is a surgical operation involving the temporal bone that is used to treat persistent and refractory vertigo as well as Ménière's disease. The neuroepithelial components of the semicircular canals and vestibule are surgically removed during this treatment (destructive).
Myringotomy with ventilation tube insertion is a surgical operation that involves making an incision in the tympanic membrane (typically in a radial direction) to get access to the middle ear, suctioning (cleaning) the fluid inside, and then inserting a device called a vent tube.
The OmniGuide BeamPath® OTO System is a versatile CO2 laser system that allows for precision otologic surgery. The BeamPath OTO's intuitive hand-held design, unlike the line-of-sight CO2 laser, allows the surgeon to flexibly guide CO2 laser energy at any angle and traverse through important middle ear anatomy.
BPPV, or benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, is a condition that causes dizziness when you move your head. The canalith repositioning procedure can help. Head motions are used to transfer the canalith particles (otoconia) in your inner ear that induce dizziness to a place of your ear where they won't produce dizziness.
It is a significant microscopic surgery for the treatment of otosclerosis (disease by which the stapes of the ear becomes fixed, which under normal conditions is a bone that should move freely for the ear to work properly).
A tympanoplasty is a procedure that involves repairing the eardrum. The eardrum is a tiny membrane of tissue that responds to sound by vibrating. When the eardrum (or tympanic membrane) has a hole that won't close on its own, doctors perform this procedure. They're designed to improve hearing and keep water out of the middle ear.
When Meniere's disease is intractable with medication or is progressing, endolymphatic sac decompression surgery is a conservative strategy to address vestibular and cochlear symptoms.
Excision is a type of surgery that involves removing a mass, such as a tumor. Excision can be used to diagnose or treat a condition. It's possible that removal is the only treatment you'll need, or that it'll be part of your treatment strategy.
surgery to remove a hole in front of the ear that has been present since birth (congenital) and is connected to a small duct that forms a cyst with the ability to create mucus. It can be unilateral or bilateral, and it frequently affects other family members (hereditary).
A benign hyperproliferation of the bony part that makes up the external auditory canal is known as an exostosis. Although some writers claim that exposure to cold water might develop this sort of disease, which is why it is sometimes known as surfer's or diver's ear, the etiology is still unknown. Exostoses are treated surgically, using canalplasty (ear canal surgery) or an incision behind the ear (in more difficult cases).
Decompression of the facial nerves is a difficult process. It entails removing the restricting bone from the seventh cranial nerve. Because the nerve travels in a zigzag pattern from the brainstem to the face, this is difficult. It passes around the inner ear structures through the temporal bone.
A perilymph fistula is a tear in the tissue that connects the middle and inner ear. Extreme pressure changes to the ear, such as those seen in head trauma, scuba diving, childbirth, and weightlifting, can cause the fistula to form. A soft-tissue graft placed over the opening can be used to close the fistula. Typically, the treatment is carried out under general anesthesia.
The most common benign tumor in the middle ear is a glomus tumor. Middle ear rhabdomyosarcoma is a rare tumor that primarily affects youngsters, with over half of all instances detected in children under the age of ten. The majority of ear and temporal bone cancers require surgical treatment, which will vary depending on histopathological characteristics, their location and the affected structures.
Hearing loss can be caused by a variety of factors, and therapy is frequently determined by the reason. Cochlear implants, implantable hearing aids, pressure equalization tubes, laser stapedectomy, ossiculoplasty, and other operations, all of which are discussed on this page, are among the most common surgical interventions.
Stapedectomy and stapedotomy are surgical procedures used to treat otosclerosis and otospongiosis. This disorder is caused by the fixation and immobilization of one of the most significant elements that make up the chain of ossicles in the ear: the stirrup, and is one of the many causes of hearing loss (hearing loss) in people.
Cells in the hollow, air-filled areas of the skull behind the ear, inside the mastoid bone, are removed during surgery. Mastoid cells are the name for these cells. This procedure may include fixing a hole in the eardrum (tympanoplasty). A tympanomastoidectomy is a treatment that involves repairing the eardrum while also cleaning out the mastoid. Mastoid obliteration is a technique that involves sealing the mastoid bowl and re-creating a more normal ear canal for patients who have recurring mastoid bowl infections.
Myringoplasty is a surgical treatment that involves inserting a graft into the eardrum (tympanic membrane) to repair perforation or other damage.
A myringotomy with the insertion of drainage tubes in the ear is a procedure used primarily in children who have recurrent acute otitis media or when mucus accumulates in the spaces of the middle ear, behind the eardrum, due to a malfunction of the Eustachian tube.
The malleus, incus, and stapes are the three bones that make up the middle ear, the eardrum and the inner ear are connected by these bones, which move together to transfer sound. Trauma, persistent infection, or cholesteatoma damage can cause one of the bones to break or dislocate, resulting in conductive hearing loss. In this case, a technique known as ossiculoplasty can be used to correct the issue. This is usually accomplished by re-establishing a link with a small prosthesis. The surgery is an outpatient treatment that is done at the patient's request. It is occasionally used with tympanoplasty (repair of a perforated eardrum).
Plastic tubes are used as vent tubes. Small holes are cut in the eardrums during the procedure, through which the tubes are inserted. Air can flow in and out of the ear through these apertures in the middle ear (the area behind the eardrum). This helps fluid that gathers behind the eardrum to exit and avoid infection by balancing the air pressure between the middle and outer ear.
This a surgery to remove a foreign body from the external ear canal or lobe. The procedure chosen is determined on the foreign body's shape, composition, and location in the canal.
The deficiency is caused by the cranial vault not being completely closed (cranium bifida). Encephaloceles are most commonly found in the midline, protruding anywhere along a line stretching from the occiput to the nasal passages, but they can also be asymmetric in the frontal or parietal areas. Encephaloceles can be repaired surgically.