OBJECTIVE To report hearing results using a titanium ossicular replacement prosthesis during canal wall down mastoidectomy with tympanoplasty to treat cholesteatoma. DESIGN Retrospective medical record review. SETTING Referral university hospital. PATIENTS Patients with cholesteatoma treated with primary or revision canal wall down mastoidectomy with tympanoplasty in a single stage. Patie...

Cochlear implantation in canal wall down mastoid (CWD) cavities is fraught with the issue of how best to manage the mastoid cavity. Decision points include whether the external auditory meatus should be overclosed, whether the implantation should be staged, or even if the eustachian tube should be plugged. Given these options, we sought to describe our experience of cochlear implantation in CWD...

introduction: meatoplasty is the final and essential step in performing effective canal wall down surgery for chronic otitis media. in this article we review some previous techniques and discuss our preferred method. materials and methods: in this observational case series study, we used this technique in 53 patients (28 male and 25 female) between january 2005 and january 2008. our survey was ...

AIM To measure the root canal area and the reduction of the mesial and buccal/lingual wall thickness at the level of the coronal interference in mesial roots of mandibular molars after instrumentation with a crown-down or a simultaneous root canal preparation technique. METHODOLOGY Twenty mesial roots of first mandibular molars with a moderate root canal curvature were embedded in resin and s...

INTRODUCTION This study was designed to evaluate the usefulness of mastoid cavity obliteration with combined bone pâté and Palva flap in the prevention of problematic mastoid cavities after canal wall down mastoidectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a prospective longitudinal study with a mean follow-up of 28 months conducted between 2008-2012, a series of 56 ears in 48 patients with chronic otit...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate the acoustic effect after canal wall-down tympanoplasty with sectioning of the tensor tympani muscle (TTM) tendon in patients with chronic otitis media. STUDY DESIGN Prospective, controlled clinical trial. METHODS From January 2010 to April 2014, 212 patients underwent canal wall-down tympanoplasty with ossicular chain reconstruction in one-stage surgery. F...

Aim of the study was to evaluate the functional results, in two homogeneous groups, for severity of the disease, submitted to canal-wall-down tympanoplasty (TPL CWD), with and without ossiculoplasty. A total of 60 patients who underwent canal-wall-down tympanoplasty for cholesteatoma were evaluated: 31 underwent ossiculoplasty (group A) and 29 classic Wullstein type III and IV operation (group ...

OBJECTIVES We evaluate the long-term surgical and hearing results using a canal wall down mastoidectomy technique followed by cavities obliteration, canal wall reconstruction and ossiculoplasty without staging. METHODS A total of 44 patients between January 2002 and October 2009 were selected and 27 of them were revision cases. Preoperative and postoperative pure tone average (PTA) and air-bo...

Objectives: To evaluate the anatomical and audiological out­ comes of synchronous ossiculoplasty with ossicular replace­ ment prosthesis during canal wall down mastoidectomy for advanced cholesteatoma. Methods: The prospective study was done at a tertiary referral institute included 30 patients of cholesteatoma who underwent canal wall down mastoidectomy. Ossicular reconstruction was performed ...