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Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgery
Ear, nose, and throat surgery is the the surgical treatment of diseases, injuries, or deformations of the ears, nose, throat, head, and neck areas...

Finding a Surgeon
Finding a surgeon refers to the process of choosing a doctor with specialized training in one or more branches of surgery to perform a specific...

Microsurgery
Microsurgery is surgery that is performed on very small structures, such as blood vessels and nerves, with specialized instruments under a microscope...

Introduction to Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgery
If you’ve ever suffered from a stuffy nose or a blocked ear, then you already have an idea of how uncomfortable even minor problems that affect...

Finding an Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon
Ear, nose, and throat surgeons are uniquely well-versed in operating on all the structures of the head and neck. The number of surgeons who count...

Choosing a Surgeon
While you will probably not be golfing with him or her anytime soon (nor would you likely want to!), you should learn a few things about the person...

Finding an ENT Surgeon
An otolaryngologist or simply ENT is a medical doctor that seems to straddle the fence between medicine and surgery. An Ear...

What Could Be Happening During Your Surgery
As surgical techniques advance in sophistication, there are a number of intraoperative procedures that could be taking place during your surgery....

What to Expect on the Day of Surgery
Surgery can be somewhat frightening even for the bravest among us. You are only partially clothed, everywhere you look people are dressed in masks...

Otolaryngology and Cochlear Implants
With all of otolaryngology’s many traditions, the field is pioneering work on one of the most advanced neuroprosthetic devices ever devised...

Otolaryngology: Treating the Head and Neck
Medicine is full of long, difficult words but otolaryngology may be one of the hardest; however when you consider that a doctor of otolaryngology...

Surgery Demographics – Security and Confidentiality
Surgery demographics are the statistics compiled about the age, gender, race and other characteristics of those undergoing surgery. Essentially surgery...

Foreign Body Removal
As unlikely as it may sound, foreign body removal is actually a very common procedure in emergency departments, after-hours clinics, and pediatrician...

One Day Surgery
Day surgery refers to a surgical procedure that takes place in a single working day, from preoperative preparation, the surgical procedure, postoperative...

Noninvasive Surgery Info
Noninvasive surgery is a term that is applied loosely depending on the source. Strictly speaking, a noninvasive surgery or procedure is one in which...

Surgical Instruments Info - Surgical Retractors
The longstanding joke among surgeons is that the best surgical retractors are third year medical students. This joke, based on a sad daily reality,...

Surgical Instruments Info - Surgical Graspers
Very few maneuvers in surgery are done without some sort of surgical instrument. Each step in a surgery-from initial incision to the final suture-is...