Conditions Treated

I am trained in many aspects of ear, nose and throat surgery - including the care of children of all ages. My special interest is managing any disorders that affect the ear. Some of the conditions I manage in children and adults include:

• Cholesteatoma

• Chronic suppurative otitis media

• Cochlear Implantation

• Exostoses

• Ear infections

• Ear canal reconstruction & mastoid cavity obliteration

• Ear pain – “otalgia”

• Ear tumours – benign & malignant (e.g. glomus tympanicum)

• Eustachian tube issues - dysfunction or patulous

• Extra sounds in the ear (i.e. tinnitus, clicking)

• Hearing implants (e.g. bone anchored hearing devices or ossicular chain reconstruction)

• Hearing loss – regardless of cause (e.g. age related, noise-induced)

• Otitis Media with Effusion “glue ear”

• Otosclerosis & stapedotomy surgery

• Paediatric (childhood) ear issues

• Perforated ear drums & surgical repair

• Reconstructive surgery of the ear canal, middle ear & mastoid

• Retracted ear drums

• Skull base tumours – e.g. vestibular schwannomas, acoustic neuromas & glomus jugulare

• Superior semicircular canal dehiscence

• Sensitivity to loud sound – “hyperacusis”

• Tympanoplasty (repairing ear drum holes)

• Vertigo - “dizziness” caused by the ear

Nose

• Blocked nose

• Chronic sinus inflammation “sinusitis”

• Decreased smell

• Deviated septum

• Fungal ball

• Hayfever – “Allergic Rhinitis”

• Recurrent acute sinus infections

• Nasal Polyps

• Non-allergic nasal inflammation – “Non-allergic Rhinitis”

Throat

• Hoarse voice – “Dysphonia”

• Snoring

• Sleep apnoea

• Tonsillitis