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The golden nose – reshaping the nose 100 years ago

6 January 2023 | | ENTA-ENT
Wolf Lűbbers (with the golden nose). Who with a crooked nose would not embrace the chance to go to bed in the evening wearing a surgical device and wake up the following morning with a straight one? And all this...
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Understanding osseointegration for the otologist

1 September 2019 | | ENTA-Auditory Implants | Bone conduction implant, Conductive hearing loss, Osseoimmunology, Osseointegration, Single-sided deafness, salivary gland
Bone conduction implants are hearing devices that require osseointegration to create a stable and reliable interface between the hearing device and the skull to deliver sound to the cochlea. This article reviews the physiology of osseointegration, factors that may lead...

Surgical voice restoration after laryngopharyngectomy

1 March 2016 | | Total laryngopharyngectomy, jejunal free flap, quality of life, radial forearm free flap, tracheoesophageal voice
Voice restoration is one of the key rehabilitative steps after laryngectomy or total laryngopharyngectomy (TLP). Patients who undergo TLP require reconstruction – increasingly commonly with microvascular free flaps. Despite their advantages in terms of fistula rates and swallowing outcomes, these...

Airway stenting in paediatric ENT

1 May 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, 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...

The mounting burden of hearing loss worldwide: gearing up global collaboration

1 November 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
As audiology and ENT professionals we all have an inkling about the prevalence and impact of hearing loss, but the true gravity of the situation is even greater than previously thought… It may seem hard to believe, but in the...

Sound sensitivity in children

1 January 2019 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Sound tolerance symptoms in young patients can be a challenge, Veronica Kennedy and Claire Benton share their clinical experience in navigating the issues that can arise in diagnosis and management. In any noisy environment, it’s a common sight to see...

Digital otoscopy with AI diagnostic support: making diagnosis of ear disease more accessible

2 June 2020 |
Following Carolina Leal’s interview with Prof De Wet Swanepoel on the HearScope system, Spotlight on Innovation asked Dr Jenny Nesgaard Pedersen to review the new AI feature in HearScope system’s capabilities. In the last decade, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine...

What happens to donated hearing aids?

1 September 2018 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-Neurotology, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Speech and Language Therapy, ENTA-Tinnitus
According to the WHO, only 3% of people in developing countries who require hearing aids have one. Over the years many people, organisations and companies have donated old hearing aids to charities. Bhavisha Parmar, an audiologist who volunteered with Sound...

Combined use of a hearing aid and a cochlear implant: a case study

1 July 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Auditory Implants
When multi-channel cochlear implants (CIs) were first introduced in the 1980s, their use was restricted to people who derived no benefit from conventional amplification. Over the past three decades, however, the criteria for CIs has been relaxed considerably, and it...

In conversation with Professor Bill Gibson: When a Padawan meets his master again

1 November 2017 | | ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Paediatrics
“It was a privilege to have conducted an interview with Professor Gibson, my mentor and teacher, during the six months I was the Graham Fraser Foundation (GFF) Fellow in Sydney in 2005. Twelve years later, I am absolutely delighted to...

Unanswered questions in adult ototoxicity associated with platinum-based chemotherapy

1 July 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Tinnitus
Do the potential side-effects on hearing and tinnitus need to be a ‘necessary evil’ of platinum-based chemotherapy? How strong is our evidence base when offering advice to patients and fellow clinicians? David Baguley and his team from the University of...

Hearing care systems – European examples

1 May 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
In this article, Vice President of the European Federation of Hard of Hearing, Lidia Best, explores the drivers for improvement and change in European hearing care systems. In 2010, the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) issued the EN-15927 European Standard...