tympanoplasty

micro-surgery of the ear to relieve infection and deafness

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[king2102b]

@jamesgd7 I know the feeling. If your staying in over night that's the worst of it over, try not to eat anything crunchy until the packing is out, it feels quite odd with your jaw moving the 'wick'. Keep the painkillers up, and you'll be fine, expect to feel dizzy for a few days.

Worst for me was I couldn't wash my hair for a few weeks as my g/f is very nervy around blood and stuff, and I couldn't keep water out of the incision site on my own, so had to use dry shampoo!

[jamesgd7]

@king2102b yeah. thanks for reply, really helps. im just kind of shitting myself about it atm.

[king2102b]

@jamesgd7 I think it depends on your surgeon, my Ear was lifted and then gained access in the canal. I took me 4 attempts to achieve success, in the end my surgeon decided to use temporal facia graft and plugged with cartildge from the inner top of Ear Lobe.

I flew for the first time since been discharged last week 20th December 2011 and all felt great.

Good luck with the operation, the worst part is the healing, but worth it if it succeeds.

[jamesgd7]

@king2102b hey glad to see it went well. i was wondering i've had my surgery done before with an incision behind the ear, it wasnt completely succesfull. but now a few yrs later i want it done again. will it be likely that they can perform tymnoplasty through the ear canal for me. thanks

[bharahul50]

pls add some audio....... beginners like me are not able orient myself to this

[king2102b]

@gurumoorthyy I've just had this done Thursday 9th Dec 2010, hope yours went well??

I think this is the microscopic view from inside the Ear canal which means they already have harvested the graft and are cleaning the margins and laying in the graft over the perforation.

Was yours successful? I have had 3 of these proceedures to date as I had an absess in my right Ear Drum which took away 92% of Ear drum, it has trouble healing as the tear is big, so this time they used Cartlage as well.

[king2102b]

@jrstapang As a patient having just had this proceedure done on 9th December 2010, I don't know the medical proceedure for controling bleeding, looks like suction is used during the actual cutting and placing of the graft. I was in hospital overnight with a compression bandage that was taken down the morning after which oozed some blood.

Now am left with a gauze wick in the ear canal which is removed in about a month. It oozes a little old blood and liquid which is apparently normal.

[pingpaj]

beautiful tympanoplasty! (I am an ENT with a scheduled similar procedure tomorrow, just reviewing) thanks for posting! would just like to ask about the puncturing of the graft, was it to guide the graft down or placed for the malleus to go into? thank you

[jrstapang]

how do you control bleeding in the ear canal?

[RJSoftware2000]

What was the material used to replace the infected tissue that was cut out? It looked like mica shavings. The drum looked grey and normal once you had it exposed. I really have little clue hoping you can elaborate. RJ