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Implantable Hearing Devices

3 September 2021 | | ENT, Auditory Implants, Otology
Implantable Hearing Devices is aimed principally at ENT surgeons in training and as a resource for otological surgeons wanting to know more about the devices available. The authors state it is a clear, concise, and comprehensive book offering answers to...

Benefits of combined antiviral and corticosteroid therapy in Bell’s palsy and the role of decompression surgery

1 November 2015 | | Human
Early use of steroids has been established as standard management in Bell’s palsy but simultaneous use of antiviral agents has variable acceptance. This review article analyses statistically based evidence to settle the issue. High quality evidence from a 2009 Cochrane...

The future of inner ear drug delivery

1 May 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Otology
The techniques for delivering drugs to the inner ear system are evolving. Jeffrey Harris considers the myths, the facts and the potential for drug delivery innovations and how they can improve tomorrow’s hearing outcomes. The inner ear’s delicate membranous structure,...

Hearing protectors and speech perception

1 May 2015 | | Hearing protection devices, learning effect, speech intelligibility, speech intelligibility impact level, speech reception threshold
This study tested 31 subjects using hearing protectors by maintaining a constant intensity level for the speech signal while varying background noise levels. The goal was to use this test to detect speech perceptual abilities under different hearing protectors –...

A rare superior tongue tie

1 November 2016 | | Ankyloglossia superior, Congenital, Craniofacial, Limb defect
The authors present a very rare case of ankyloglossia superior syndrome: first described in 1911 but with only 14 case reports in English literature it was of sufficient interest to discuss the aetiology, classification and management. As the palatal shelves...

Recognition for Sunil

29 November 2022
Congratulations to Sunil Narayan Dutt, one of the global ambassadors on ENT & Audiology News, whose work has been championed by the Government of Karnataka in South West India. The senior consultant and clinical director in ENT at Apollo Hospitals,...

Beware of Bicycle Face!

21 January 2020 | | ENT
Many of us were told as children that we would get square eyes from watching too much television. But spare a thought for those late Victorian ladies, embracing their first taste of liberty on a bicycle, who were threatened with...

Old age is hard to swallow

4 May 2023 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
This article takes us through the diagnosis and management of swallowing problems common in older age. As our global population continues to grow and live longer, dysphagia will continue to be a global problem which needs to be recognised, understood...

In conversation with Professor John Fenton

1 March 2018 | | ENT, Head and Neck
John Fenton, Republic of Ireland, has recently been appointed President of the Union Européene Des Médicins Spécialistes (UEMS) ORL or European Union of Medical Specialists ORL Section. We caught up with him to find out a little more about his...

‘The Sun does not forget a village just because it is too small’ – African proverb

1 November 2014 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
Solar powered hearing aids In the middle of the morning of January 24, 2002, I had been in Otse for only three days, a village of 3500 in the south of Botswana, when I heard a knock at the door....

The tip in rhinoplasty

1 July 2019 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus, Rhinoplasty, Maxillofacial Surgery
Getting the tip right (both its position and its shape) is vital in rhinoplasty. George Marcells eloquently gives us his perspective on how to get it right. “Many surgeons overly concentrate on the profile at the expense of the frontal...

4th ENT Masterclass® Europe

6 September 2019 -7 September 2019 | ENT
Report by: Mr Mahmoud Daoud, ENT & Facial Plastic Surgeon, Bucharest, Romania. Following the successful European Masterclasses in Berlin and Lausanne, Bucharest was the venue for the 4th European ENT Masterclass®, pushing the frontiers of the free training platform to...