Ear
- Grommets
- Myringoplasty (closing of hole in ear drum)
- Examination under anaesthesia (because we all know that sometimes kids don’t tolerate a real look and clean out)
- Mastoidectomy (for very bad, chronic infections or cholesteatomas)
Nose
- Adenoidectomy
- Sinus wash-out
- FESS (to open drainage of sinuses)
- Removal of dermoids
- Removal of foreign bodies
- Turbinectomies (bad allergies/hayfever)
- Drainage of abscesses
- Cautery (burning of blood vessels for ongoing epistaxis)
- Congenital problems such as choanal atresia or piriform aperture stenosis
Throat
- Tonsillectomy
- Tongue tie release
- Pharyngoscopy (looking in the throat to source an infection/foreign body/reason for choking)
- Drainage of abscesses
“I hope that we can develop a relationship that keeps your child’s best interest at heart, in an environment, which can often be daunting.”
Breathing
- Microlaryngobronchoscopy (look down the airway to find the cause of illness)
- Placement of nasopharyngeal airways
- Balloon dilatation
- Reconstructions
- Removal of lesions of voice box
- Tracheostomy
- Cricoid split
- Laryngotracheal reconstruction
- CTR
- Removal of foreign bodies
Neck
- Removal of cysts and growths
- Tracheostomy
- Biopsies
- Difficult intubations