Eardrum Surgery

Eardrum Surgery

Tympanoplasty

When a hole occurs in the eardrum, the water that escapes into the ear causes the ear to flow due to the infection. These discharges cause permanent damage to hearing by causing melting in the bones that provide hearing. The eardrum is a tissue that increases hearing by 15-20 decibels. If there is a hole, hearing is reduced. The perforated eardrum creates an infection when it interacts with water. This infection also causes permanent hearing damage in the patient. Infections such as facial paralysis, meningitis, dizziness, brain abscess, ear abscess may occur.

Tympanoplasty is an operation to repair the eardrum by removing the inflammation in the middle ear and bone in patients with a hole in the eardrum or chronic otitis media. In cases where there is no inflammation, the repair of the eardrum is called myringoplasty.

WHAT?

Tympanoplasty surgery is technically the repair of the eardrum and the auditory system in the middle ear, and the removal of inflammation in the mastoid bone in the middle ear and behind the ear.

Depending on the extent of the disease detected in the patient, the operation can only be performed by repairing the hole in the eardrum (myringoplasty) and repairing the ossicular system in the middle ear with membrane repair (tympanoplasty), clearing the inflammation that has progressed into the mastoid bone (mastoidectomy) or a combination of these operations (thymoanomastoidectomy). ) are performed together with

In tympanoplasty surgery, the perforated eardrum is closed and the ossicles that provide sound transmission are repaired with the help of auxiliary operations. Necessary tissue, cartilage, bone fragments or artificial prostheses created for the middle ear are used.

WHAT CAUSES EARDAR PERFORMANCE?

The eardrum is a thin membrane inside the ear canal that separates the outer ear and middle ear. Perforation of the eardrum occurs as a result of rupture or perforation of this membrane. A hole in the eardrum causes hearing loss, and sometimes a discharge from the ear occurs. Tearing can sometimes be felt with a buzzing and ringing sound in the ears. This does not cause pain. In some cases, tears and holes in your ears can close on their own, but in severe cases, surgery is required.

Various activities that we may encounter in our daily life can cause pressure changes in the ear to rupture the membrane. This condition, known as barotrauma, is due to the fact that the pressure inside the ear is different from the outside.

We can list the situations that can cause perforation of the eardrum as follows:

- Scuba diving
- Airplane trip
- Exposure to shock waves
- Driving at high altitudes
- Injury and trauma
- Sudden pressure changes
- Insertion of foreign objects into the ear
- Otitis media
- Getting hot or acidic fluids into the ear canals
- Car accidents
- Sports injuries
- Falling on the ear
- A hard blow to the ear
- Explosion near the ear