The clinic investigates and treats hearing and ear conditions using an audiometer, tympanometer and ear microscope.
Common conditions
- Sudden hearing loss
- Chronic hearing loss
- Presbycusis
- Tinnitus
- Vertigo
- Blocked ear canal (wax or foreign body)
- Outer or middle ear infection
- Chronic otitis with perforated eardrum
- Ear barotrauma
- Cysts and lumps of the ear
- Ear injuries
Examinations & procedures in the clinic
- Pure-tone audiometryHearing test, usually from age 4–4.5.
- TympanometryPainless test of eardrum mobility.
- Acoustic reflexesIndirect information about the middle ear.
- Otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE / TEOAE)
- Nystagmus assessment with Frenzel goggles
- Ear microscopy and rigid ear endoscopy
- BPPV (positional vertigo) manoeuvresDiagnostic and therapeutic.
- Minor ear procedures under local anaesthesia
