Background/aim: The purpose of this study was to compare cartilage reinforcement graft results with temporalis fascia graft alone in terms of hearing and anatomical outcomes in tympanoplasty. Materials and methods: Patients who underwent tympanoplasty with/without ossiculoplasty and/or mastoidectomy at a university hospital from 2006 through 2013 were reviewed retrospectively. The patients were...

Abstract Aim To find out the mean air conduction thresholds (ACT) and air–bone gap (ABG) closure across treatment groups at end of 3 6 months follow-up. Material methods Sixty patients diagnosed with COM conductive hearing loss were included in study. Air threshold calculated recorded pre-operatively. Surgery was done clearance disease followed by reconstruction single-stage operation using aut...

INTRODUCTION Even though modern technology progresses so rapidly, annals of otology are replete with so many challenging article, which often compare various types of prosthesis. Since there has not been a prospective randomized clinical trial study which compares the hearing result of total ossicular replacement prosthesis made of Titanium with omega connector and Polycel in the literature, we...

Objectives: To evaluate the anatomical and audiological out­ comes of synchronous ossiculoplasty with ossicular replace­ ment prosthesis during canal wall down mastoidectomy for advanced cholesteatoma. Methods: The prospective study was done at a tertiary referral institute included 30 patients of cholesteatoma who underwent canal wall down mastoidectomy. Ossicular reconstruction was performed ...