Objective This study was performed to investigate changes in dentofacial characteristics associated with mouth breathing (MB) and adenoidectomy. Background MB is considered be an etiological factor of malocclusion. Adenoidectomy supposed have the ability prevent development deformities. Methods retrospective included 123 patients, namely 57 nose breathers, 19 former who undergone adenoidectomy,...

Adenoidectomy is a common ENT procedure performed in hospitals in Malaysia. Adenoidectomy is indicated in patients with recurrent adenoiditis, nasal obstruction or sleep apnoea secondary to adenoid hypertrophy when conservative management has failed. Over the years, there are advances in the techniques of adenoidectomy, from the conventional transoral to endoscopic transnasal/transoral adenoide...

Background: Otitis media with effusion (OME) is the most frequent indication for surgery in children. Some surgeons prefer to use adenoidectomy and myringotomy with tympanostomy tubes insertion to prevent the sequelae of the disease and also more improvement of hearing. The aim of this study is to compare adenoidectomy-myringotomy with adenoidectomy-myringotomy plus tympanostomy tube in the man...

OBJECTIVE To compare the costs associated with 2 clinical strategies in children with recurrent upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs): immediate adenoidectomy vs an initial watchful waiting strategy. DESIGN A cost-minimization analysis from a societal perspective including both direct and indirect costs, alongside an open randomized controlled trial with a 2-year follow-up. SETTING Mul...

Aim of our study is to compare the efficacy and safety of coblation adenoidectomy versus conventional cold steel adenoidectomy. The study design included 40 children between age groups 4 – 8. Twenty of these children underwent coblation adenoidectomy while the other group of 20 underwent conventional cold steel adenoidectomy. The parameters taken into consideration for comparison included Post ...

Most of the literature on tonsillectomy concerns the combined operation, tonsillectomy with adenoidectomy, and one is left in doubt whether the benefits can be attributed to the tonsillectomy, to the adenoidectomy, or to both parts of the operation. It was noted by Fry (1957) that otitis media featured in more than half of the children referred for tonsillectomy from his practice. In a survey o...

Changes in incisor inclination and position in both jaws of children during the first 5 years after adenoidectomy were studied. The main change is a significant increased labial inclination of the incisors for the adenoidectomy groups. All variables that measure the labiolingual position of the mandibular incisors confirm a significant labial incisor positioning for both sexes. Stepwise regress...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of improved nasopharyngeal airflow after adenoidectomy on nasal turbinate erectile tissue in pediatric patients. DESIGN Clinical, prospective, before-and-after study. SETTING Pediatric Otolaryngology Clinic at Hospital da Criança Santo Antônio de Porto Alegre (Complexo Hospitalar Santa Casa de Porto Alegre). PATIENTS Twenty-one 5- to 11-year-old children ...

introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate audiological outcomes following adenoidectomy by the classical method and by endoscopically-assisted adenoidectomy using a powered instrument (microdebrider).   materials and methods: this study was conducted in a tertiary care center. it included 40 patients divided into two equal groups of 20 each. group-a patients underwent classical adenoi...

An adenoidectomy is the surgical treat ment that consists in the removal of hypertrophied lymphatic tissue (Lushka’s pharyngeal tonsil), which blocks the rhinopharynx, behind the nose. Hypertrophy is the result of an abnormal development of the lymphatic follicles either from birth or as a result of repeated infections of the upper respiratory tract. Hypertrophy, in its turn, favors recurrent i...