Aim: this study aims to evaluate the efficacy of a PRP hourglass graft compared with conventional methodemploying temporalis fascia underlay in treating tympanic membrane perforation.Materials and methods: randomized controlled trial was conducted period fromOctober 2018 December 2020 on forty patients chronic otitis media safe dry mucosal disease presented todepartment otorhinolaryngology, Ben...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine how tympanic membrane (TM) perforations and their closure, using a paper-patch technique, affect middle-ear mechanics and, thus, conductive hearing for different sizes of the TM perforation. STUDY DESIGN Temporal bone (TB) study and prospective clinical trial. SETTING Tertiary referral center. PATIENTS Nine patients with chronic otitis media for mor...

BACKGROUND Myringoplasty can be technically difficult in the pediatric patients due to the narrowness of the external auditory canal and the generally small size of the ear. Moreover, temporalis fascia grafts and myringoplasties for anterior perforations are more likely to fail in children. Surgical management of anterior perforations requires total exposure of the anterior angle however a micr...