Patient Education
Patient Education
Our team of specialists and staff believe that informed patients are better equipped to make decisions regarding their health and well being. For your personal use, we have created an extensive patient library covering an array of educational topics. Browse through these diagnoses and treatments to learn more about topics of interest to you. Or, for a more comprehensive search of our entire Web site, enter your term(s) in the search bar provided.
As always, you can contact our office to answer any questions or concerns.
As always, you can contact our office to answer any questions or concerns.
Search Results
Child Screening
...It is important to have hearing loss evaluated by a physician who can rule out medical problems that may be causing the hearing loss, such as otitis media (ear infection), excessive earwax congenital malformations, or a genetic hearing loss...
Noise-Induced Hearing Loss In Children
...This type of hearing loss can be caused by middle ear infection, impacted earwax, or a benign tumor...
Earwax
...The absence of earwax may result in dry, itchy ears...
Better Ear Health
...One of the most common and easily treatable causes of hearing loss is accumulated earwax...
Buying a Hearing Aid: Answers to common questions
...If you have ear pain, drainage, excess earwax, hearing loss in only one ear, sudden or rapidly progressive hearing loss, or dizziness, it is especially important that you see an otolaryngologist, as these may be symptoms indicating a serious medical problem...
Child Screening
...It is important to have hearing loss evaluated by a physician who can rule out medical problems that may be causing the hearing loss, such as otitis media (ear infection), excessive earwax, congenital malformations, or a genetic hearing loss...
Chronic Otitis Media (Middle Ear Infection) and Hearing Loss
...They include: Cerumen impaction (compressed earwax) Otitis externa: Inflammation of the external auditory canal, also called "swimmer's ear...
Swimmer's Ear
...Swimmer’s ear (also called acute otitis externa) often affects children and teenagers, but can also affect those with eczema (a condition that causes the skin to itch), or excess earwax...