Procedures offered by the Otorhinolaryngology team at the GMI include:

Ear

• Problems outside the ear
  • Wax in the ear (hives)
  • Otitis externa (swimmer's ear disease)
  • Trauma and foreign bodies in the ear canal
  • Ear problems in the summer
• Middle ear problems
  • Acute otitis media
  • Secretory otitis (fluid in the ear)
  • Drum perforation (from acute otitis media)
  • Drum perforation (from injury)
  • Otosclerosis
  • Flying, diving and barotrauma
• Inner ear & auditory nerve problems
  • Auditory trauma
  • Tinnitus (ringing in the ears)
  • Sudden hearing loss
  • Presbycusis (ageing hearing loss)
  • Noise-induced hearing loss

SPECIALISED MEDICINE ROOM

HEARING FUNCTION: complete audiological check with tonal audiogram, speech audiometry, tentative dynamic otoacoustic emissions, assr, cochleography. 

Vertigo and dizziness

Benign positional vertigo in a specially designed room with cold and hot diffusion tests, frenzel glasses and video nystagmography.

Nasal Cavity

• Aesthetic nose problems
• Hubris (hump in the nose)
• Scoliosis of the nasal septum
• Hypertrophy of nasal cones
• Sinusitis (paranasal sinusitis)
• Nasal polyps
• Rhinorrhoea - Resistance
• Vasomotor rhinitis
• Medicinal rhinitis
• Olfactory problems

Pharynx

• Acute tonsillitis
• Chronic tonsillitis
• Tonsillar hypertrophy
• Periamniotic abscess (tonsillar abscess)
• Adenoid hyperplasia (cretaceous hypertrophy)
• Mouth odour
• Snoring and sleep apnoea

Larynx

• • Acute laryngitis
  • Chronic laryngitis
  • Polyps of the vocal cords
  • Vocal cord nodules
  • Leucoplakia of the vocal cords
  • Cancer of the vocal cords and larynx
  • Pharyngeal-Laryngeal Regression (PALAP)

• Voice Health Guidelines

Allergies

• Allergic rhinitis in adults
• Allergic rhinitis in children
• Questions and answers: allergic rhinitis
• Allergen avoidance guidelines

Otology - ear surgery 

• Removal of foreign bodies from the external auditory canal
• Surgical repair of ear flap injuries
• Paracentesis of the eardrum
• Placement of ventilation tubes 
• Tympanoplasty

Nose operations (nose surgery)

• Plastic surgery of the nasal septum
• Restoration of nasal concha hypertrophy using ultrasound or radiofrequency
• Invasive Conchoplasty - Conchotomy
• Endoscopic microsurgery of the paranasal sinuses
• Endoscopic removal of nasal polyps
• Endoscopic removal of foreign bodies in the nose
• Surgical repair of nasal wounds
• Treatment of chronic sinusitis & sinusitis

Pharyngeal - mouth operations

• Tonsillectomy
• Surgical opening of peri-maxillary abscess and neck and pharyngeal abscesses
• Adenotomy 
• Endoscopic removal of foreign bodies in the pharynx
• Surgical rehabilitation of Sleep - Snoring Disorders (Sleep Apnoea Syndrome)
• Cross-section of the short tongue - lip carpal tunnel
• Surgical repair of tongue and oral cavity injuries
• Treatment of pre-cancerous lesions of the oral cavity - tongue.

Laryngeal surgery

• Laryngeal and vocal cord surgery (Phonosurgery)
• Surgical removal of polyps – nodes – leucoplakia
• Endoscopic removal of foreign bodies from the larynx

Minor interventions

• Removal of skin lesions, benign or malignant, on the face and ears.
• Treatment of tinnitus or sudden hearing loss by intratympanic injections.

Treatment of oncological cases.