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The use of botulinum toxin A to reverse paralysis of the lower lip

1 January 2017 |
The aim of this retrospective case series was to examine the role of botulinum toxin A in paediatric patients with paralysis of the lower lip. Depressor or elevator muscles of the lip (unaffected side) were injected with varying doses of...
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Surgery for hypopharyngeal obstruction causing OSA

1 March 2016 | | Hyoid suspension, Hyoid surgery, Hyoidthyroidpexia, Drug-induced sedated endoscopy
Surgical treatments for OSA are evolving with improved diagnostic accuracy of the level(s) involved. Where the collapsing segment lies below the soft palate, a variety of surgical techniques to correct the affected segment(s) are emerging. This article concentrates on one...

Speedy speedy: people with MND chew faster but speak slower

2 November 2020 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, biomechanics, jaw, kinematics, mastication, speech
Motor Neurone Disease (MND) is a progressive neurological condition that affects motor neurons in the brain, brainstem and spinal cord, affecting the control of skeletal muscles for speech, chewing and swallowing. There are two variants of MND, with symptoms typically...
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How does temporomandibular dysfunction affect voice-related quality of life?

3 November 2023 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Temporomandibular dysfunction
Temporomandibular dysfunction (TMD) is a group of neuromuscular or musculoskeletal problems that affect the muscles and fascia related to chewing and jaw opening. Patients are often seen in ENT clinics because of symptoms such as trismus, pain and muscle tension,...
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Eustachian tube dilatation can be done as an office procedure

7 January 2026 | | ENTA - Otology
Symptoms of eustachian tube dysfunction can often prove stressful and the treatment can be quite challenging in terms of sustained improvement. In this study, 31 patients underwent eustachian tube dilatation under local anaesthesia. The procedure is based on the concept...

Vestibular rehabilitation therapy: diagnosis based strategies

1 November 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
In his second article on this topic (see here for the first article), Richard E Gans explains how to use vestibular rehabilitation therapy to treat vestibular patients, and demonstrates why this method of diagnosis based strategies has proved so successful....

What does an Olympic medal and surgery have in common?

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Paediatrics
Competing against female Eastern Bloc athletes in the 1980s was a thankless task, demanding a mulish tenacity in an often futile cause. Ideal preparation for a career in surgery? My path to medicine was unusual, in that I left school...

Audible Contrast Threshold – a new test to guide setting help-in-noise features in hearing aids

4 March 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
A new diagnostic test that is quick and has directly applicable results to hearing aid settings has arrived, but how does it work? Leigh Martin has the answers. In an earlier article for ENT & Audiology News, Parmar and Rajasingam...

Airway stenting in paediatric ENT

1 May 2017 | | ENTA - Paediatrics, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Although experience in the use of airway stents in adults is considerable, their use in children is more recent and more limited. Cláudia Schweiger and Michael J Rutter provide an overview of stents and their use in paediatric airway. Stenting...

Andrew Foster and deaf education

3 March 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
This article examines the career of deaf African American, Andrew Foster, and his contribution to deaf education in Sub-Saharan Africa. The history of medicine has often been guilty of attributing great revolutions to a single person (usually a white man)...

The role of significant others in hearing aid adoption

1 July 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Presbycusis, or age-related hearing loss, is one of the most common conditions affecting older adults and its prevalence is found to increase with age. Over the years, amplification technology has advanced significantly from analogue to digital signal processing. Despite this,...

A person-centred approach to telehealth

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
“The time when telehealth was a remote, abstract concept has come to an end”. Deborah Ferrari and Lise Lotte Bundesen discuss how to advance person-centred care in hearing rehabilitation through online tools and training. The time when telehealth was a...