Surgery for Hearing Tympanoplasty is a type of ear surgery performed to repair the ear drum. The ear drum perforates when it is subjected to recurrent ear infection. This can further damage the ossicles ( small bones which conduct hearing). In this scenario tympanoplasty is combined with a surgery for hearing restoration called ossiculoplasty. Occasionally, […]
Tympanoplasty
Tympanoplasty is a Micro-Ear surgery with an aim to achieve two objectives 1. Improve patient’s hearing and 2. Give the patient a dry ear .
Dr Abhineet uses temporalis facia graft which can be harvested from the same incision to repair the ear drum and uses various ossicular reconstruction techniques to improve the hearing .
During your first visit you will under an Otoscopic examination and an audiogram (hearing test) .Occasionally you will also be advised a HRCT temporal bone. Based on the hearing and the otoscopic finding Dr Abhineet will discuss with you the treatment and the likely hearing outcome after surgery .
At the Pranidhana Clinic we maintain an audit of our surgical patients and have given successful outcomes in more than 98% patients.