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The middle ear is a tiny air-filled space near your eardrum that helps transfer the sounds from the outer ear to the inner ear through small bones (ossicles).
The ossicles vibrate when the sound hits the eardrum, which helps in hearing. They are like a speaker system, but just tiny and powerful, that helps you hear different sounds and different frequencies clearly.
Middle
Ear
The outer ear is separated from the middle ear by an air-filled hollow space called Tympanic Canal. The middle ear has an important function to perform; it takes the acoustic sound waves from air to fluid medium into the inner ear within the cochlea.
Disease & Medical Conditions
of Middle Ear
Otitis Media is an acute form of middle ear infection or inflammation, seen especially in infants, toddler, and older children. Symptoms of Otitis Media include difficulty in hearing, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, head and neck pain, bad temper, crying and lack of balance.
Otitis Media
Cholesteatoma is characterized by non-cancerous and abnormal skin growth in the middle ear, behind eardrum. This medical condition can be genetic or due to recurrent infection in the middle ear.
Cholesteatoma
This condition is called as ‘Scarring of the eardrum’. It happens due to the injury to the eardrum or after the surgery. Calcification of middle ear leads to hearing loss and white patches are seen in the middle ear.
Tympanosclerosis
Barotrauma is seen mainly in people who practice diving and trekking. This occurs due to changes in the air pressure and velocity. Indications of barotrauma include giddiness, discomfort in the ear, acute pain in the ear, difficulty in hearing, bleeding from the nose, damage of eardrum, etc.
Barotrauma
Conductive hearing loss occurs when there is a problem directing sound waves gets blocked anywhere in the outer ear, eardrum or ossicles. Causes of conductive hearing loss are the recurrent infection of the middle ear, trauma, fluid accumulation and ear wax build-up.
Conductive
Hearing Loss
Our ENT surgeon in Coimbatore provides various treatments and surgeries for conditions that stop you from hearing clearly and vibrantly. These include-
- Otitis media (ear infection)
- Cholesteatoma (abnormal skin growth)
- Tympanosclerosis
- Barotrauma (pressure damage)
- Conductive hearing loss
- Otosclerosis and tympanic membrane retraction (eardrum retraction).
The surgeons provide medicines or surgery as the treatment option, depending on the problem you face - ear infection, perforated eardrum and others. Most of these procedures are done like day surgeries, which can take a few days or weeks to recover from. Get assessed today with our expert ENT team and hear clearly!
