747, Poonamalle High Road
(Opp. Pachaiyappa's College)
Kilpauk, Chennai-600010
+91 73977 68795
044 4074 2000
Otology and Neuro-Otology (Ear)
Ears are essential for hearing and balance. Various conditions can affect their function, but timely diagnosis and treatment can prevent complications. At the Department of ENT (Otorhinolaryngology) in THANC Hospital, we provide expert care for a wide range of ear disorders for all ages.
Symptoms of ear disorders
- Ear pain
- Ear discharge
- Ear block
- Hearing loss
- Ear Itching
- Ear bleeding
- Ear Forgein Body
- Ringing in ears
- Giddiness
- Facial Nerve palsy
- Swelling in the ear
Conditions Treated
- Otitis media
- Otitis externa
- Malignant Otitis externa
- Perforated Ear drum
- Cholesteatoma
- Osteosclerosis
- Facial nerve tumors
- Bell’s Palsy
- Cancer of the ear
- Hearing loss
- Tinnitus
- Vertigo
- Balance disorders
Treatment Approaches
At The Head And Neck Centre & Hospital, the ENT department is equipped with following facilities and Out Patient procedures:
- Rigid Endoscopy
- Oto Microscopy
- Ear wax removal
- Ear lobe repair
- Foreign body removal
- Intratympanic steroid injection
The department is also best equipped for audiological evaluation (hearing assessment) to diagnose congenital hearing loss, developmental hearing loss, non-infective hearing loss, noise induced hearing loss and age related hearing loss with the help of:
- Pure Tone Audiogram
- Impedance Audiometry
- Speech Audiometry
- Oto Acoustic Emission (OAE)
- Brainstem Evoked Response Audiometry (BERA)
The hospital has a Vestibular lab for balance assessment to diagnose patients with central and peripheral vertigo and is equipped with the following:
- Videonystagmography (VNG)
- Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential (VEMP)
- Video Head Impulse Test (VHIT)
- Electrocochleogram (ECochG)
Vestibular rehabilitation therapy and Repositioning maneuver are done for a comprehensive management of Vertigo.
Surgeries performed by our expert team of doctors
- Endoscopic Ear Surgery
- Tympanoplasty
- Mastoidectomy
- Ossiculoplasty
- Stapedotomy
- Cochlear Implant Surgery
- Vertigo Rehabilitation
- Surgery for Vertigo
- Facial Nerve Decompression Surgery
- Endolymphatic sac decompression
- Labyrinthectomy
- Lateral temporal bone resection
MEET YOUR CARE TEAM
Departmental Surgeon
Dr. Arulalan Mathialagan
MBBS, MS (ORLHNS), DNB (ENT), PDCC (Neuro – Otology)
ENT / Otorhinolaryngologist | Skull Base Surgeon | Neuro – Otologist
Departmental Surgeon
Dr. Sankavi Dhanasekar
MBBS, MS (ENT)
ENT / Otorhinolaryngologist
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No.747, Poonamallee High Road,
Alagappa Nagar, Kilpauk,
Chennai – 600 010.
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- 044 4074 2000
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