Month: January 2020

In a normal hearing course, earlap (tragus) just like a dish antenna collects the sounds from surrounding area that reaches us and transmits to eardrum via external ear. Sound waves reaching to eardrum is vibrated by 3 pieces (ors, stapes, malleus ossicles) little ossicles between eardrum behind the eardrum and inner ear and transmitted to […]

For the precise measuring of hearing in infants a test named BERA is used in which infants’ reaction is not needed and measured with instruments directly from the brain without hearing. In adults case hearing tests are applied in a special cabinet which is called pure sound audiometry.

Reason of this disease is not known exactly. It is the calcification of ear ossicles disease of which genetic susceptibility has a big role; in white race it is encountered 10 times more than the black and red race. In women frequency increases with the pregnancy. With the calcification movement capability of the ear ossicle […]

After ear infections encountered the mucous inlays the middle ear retains water and forms a saturated, rich in protein secretion.  Enzymes and bacterial residuals inside this secretion fuses the ossicles in middle ear. Like the waves in the sea taking away the sands on the beach, after every ear infection ear becomes anatomically and physiologically […]

If it is a perforated eardrum more than 3 months, microbes reach the middle ear through the orifice tunicle and with repeating middle ear infections forms this disease.  If middle ear inflammations do not treated enough, a continuous secretion, over the time fusions in the ear bones, and hear losses are developed.  Over the time […]

Torn Eardrum if may form because of traumatic reasons or late & inadequate treatment of middle ear. Eardrum torn related to traumatic reasons (hit by a ball, pressure changes during flight or diving) generally recover between 2-3 weeks with the follow up. But, longtime existing eardrum torn which are developed by an infection must be […]

This disease is the suppuration in the middle ear chamber and complaints are ear pain, lack of enough hearing, feeling of fullness in the air, especially nausea, vomiting, lack of appetite in infants. Middle ear chamber is a closed area therefore it causes strong pain. Generally it is formed after an upper respiratory tract infection.  […]

It is a disease of no infection liquid accumulation in middle ear (tympanum). It is a common disease of childhood and the reason is that the Eustachian tube which is an anatomic channel connects the nasal space with middle ear rejects working properly Among the reasons are in childhood period Eustachian tube does not have […]

It is formed by getting an infection of external auditory channel’s skin. In this disease patients have the complaints such as severe pain when moving the jaw or pressing the front ear, secretion and insufficient hearing. It is commonly seen in occasions such as when external auditory channel has eczema, little cracks on the skin […]

It is a skin disease of conic shaped external auditory channel which is itchy and crusty. It is not epidemic. It is originally an allergic based disease but can be stimulated during periods of diabetes and distress. These type of ears are especially set for inflammation in the summer time with the water contact in […]