DO YOU HAVE TO CUT THE EARDRUM TO GET INTO THE MIDDLE EAR?
We approach the surgery through your ear canal, making an incision inside of the ear canal and then lifting your ear drum, much like lifting the hood of a car. Once the ear drum is lifted, we are able to access the middle ear and the hearing bones. At this point, we laser away the stapes bone and replace the bone with a prosthesis. Once completed, we replace the eardrum in its native location. There are no holes or defects in the eardrum.