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The Brain’s Connectome – a symphony inside our brains and how hearing loss disturbs the music
Understand us; where do we begin? In this article the authors’ introduce a project that may uncover that our personalities and traits are a product of the interconnected wiring within our brain. The team discusses the Human Connectome Project and...BAA Annual Conference 2025
Explore the future of audiology at the BAA Annual Conference 2025 The British Academy of Audiology (BAA) invites hearing and balance care professionals to its 21st Annual Conference, taking place at the Telford International Centre. As the UK’s leading audiology...A.R.C. Laser looks forward to seeing their customers again!
The A.R.C. Laser team will participate in the AAO-HNSF in Los Angeles in early October and just a few weeks later at Fall Voice in Miami, USA. As always, A.R.C Laser will be sharing their expertise on surgical lasers, such as the FOX Diode laser...Innovia Medical Launches the Oral Rotating Biopsy Punch
Innovia Medical is proud of the addition of the DTR Medical® Oral Rotating Biopsy Punch to their Single-use ENT range!Cochlear implantation for single-sided deafness and asymmetric hearing loss
Continuing our sub-theme of cochlear implantation candidacy, Richard Irving and Raghu Kumar review the principles and benefits of cochlear implantation in individuals who have an asymmetric hearing loss. It is well known that cochlear implantation improves auditory capacity, and in...The pioneer of precision: Wolfgang Steiner and the evolution of transoral laser surgery
It is rare that a single clinician entirely changes the course of the management of a particular condition. Steiner was one such clinician. Wolfgang Steiner was to transoral laser microsurgery what Grandmaster Flash was to hip-hop or James Brown was...BAAP National Audit Meeting
Sabarinath Vijayakumar, ST5 Registrar in Audiovestibular medicine, Royal Derby Hospital. The British Association of Audiovestibular Physicians (BAAP) hosted its 2025 National Audit Meeting online in June. This meeting brought together members, consultants and trainees in audiovestibular medicine from across the...
Voice change after total thyroidectomy with intact laryngeal nerves – a common but temporary problem
It has been reported that up to 87% of patients have a degree of voice dysfunction after thyroidectomy, even when the laryngeal nerves are preserved. Postoperative inflammation, laryngeal oedema due to vascular congestion, direct damage to the cricothyroid muscles and...
Cochlear implants for tinnitus
This study from Belgium is the first to look at the long term reduction in tinnitus for a cohort of 23 patients with unilateral profound hearing loss and incapacitating tinnitus implanted with cochlear implants (CI). The authors were able to...
Literature review of experience with the BAHA Attract implant
The authors undertook a literature review for reports on patients who underwent BAHA Attract implantation. Of the 497 PubMed articles, 10 studies met their inclusion criteria. All the studies published were observational studies. There were no randomised control trials. The...
Tongue tie – just a snip?
This article regarding ankyloglossia raises an eyebrow; surely it’s just a snip isn’t it? Seemingly not. The authors describe two types of tongue tie – the first being posterior, with the frenulum being short and tight, the second being anterior,...
