Stapedectomy Surgery

“Stapedectomy” otosclerosis surgery due to restricted movement, and the stirrup (stapes) inner ear transmit them to the bone sesdalga instead of removing a prosthesis is placed. Surgery can be performed under local or general anesthesia that 90-95% of successful results are obtained in the majority of patients in almost all of conductive hearing loss can be corrected.

This Is How It Is Done?

With a slight hearing loss or auditory organs of the inner ear in patients with severe sensorineural hearing loss are severely affected, surgery is not recommended. All except that an obstacle to surgery in patients with otosclerosis usually it is suggested that unless there is a serious health issue on your side.

Dizziness may be for a few days after surgery. At the end of surgery surgical sponges are placed in the ear canal at the end of this period removed within 7-10 days and the patients can return to their normal lives.

Stapedectomy surgery performed with appropriate surgical equipment and surgical techniques, although the risks are quite low, middle ear problems related to all the operations in 1% there is a risk of hearing loss. Apart from that, much more rarely, the formation of a hole in the eardrum, the facial nerve injury, ear infection, in the early period of the piston, can be traced to complications such as dislocation.