hi everybody my name is Rhys Barber I'm
the audiologist here at audiology
associates we upload new ear wax removal
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barber from audiology associates thank
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Ear wax removal video today we've got
three patients in this compilation all
with plugs of ear wax basically coming
through first patient here has had ear wax
on both sides came into clinic today
we've already attempted one side but we
needed to oil that for a week and get
them back in so this is the second ear
so what we can see is we've got some
very very sticky thick type of ear wax which
is basically stuck to the bottom of the
ear canal wall here so we're just lifting
this off the ear canal just trying to unpeel
it slightly thank you to everyone who
gave me suggestions for that type of ear wax
last week I've looked over to Google a
few things but I think the closest
things I saw unfortunately were
food-related which was a tootsie roll
and malt loaf that's the closest
description I could get to that ear wax so
you can see here we've just managed to
get a grip on the edge of the ear wax we're
just slowly working this out of the
ear canal you can see little hairs on the
outer part the ear canal they're just
holding everything in just slow in the
video down a little bit now so you can
see this coming away you can see a long
thin bit now I want you to show the
eardrum looks perfect absolutely spot on
there that's a textbook eardrum this is
the piece that we removed here so one
and a half centimeters long just over a
half an inch there so you can see quite
quite a long thin piece of ear wax in this
person's ear canal so this is the second
person patient in our compilation today so
we'll see here now we've got quite
a large piece of ear wax I'm just squaring
the camera up to get a better view in
there a second what we're gonna do here
is just unstick it from this right-hand
side ear canal wall first of all whenever we
do this type of suction what we get is
we always try and remove it from the
ear canal wall before we take the central
section away
so what we do is we place the suction
tube on top of the ear wax and just make
some very gentle movements I'm looking
to see which parts of the ear wax move so
it's more assessing what we've got in
here on where this ear wax is stuck first of
all so you can see that although I'm
moving the piece I'm actually on and not
really moving much else so I'm going to
work a bit more on the corner you can
see there's a little bit more movement
there we've got some very sticky ear wax
here to the right-hand side
just trying to lift from the base here
there we are now can you see the whole
thing starts to move a little bit more
here at the front end but only the front
end is moving now that's normally a
really good indication for us that this
ear wax is quite a long piece otherwise if
you'd see a lot more moving a lot freer
movement to the ear wax so just working my
way around it now just to pull away from
the sides here maybe I just starting to
work with everything together but bit
more movement you'll see a little bit
more there we go can you see the whole
thing looks a lot freer now we're
starting to move a lot more easily so
that shows me that we've managed to
detach it from the ear canal walls quite
well there so just working this out just
wiggling this down the ear canal there
we go a lot more movement there now so
you can see I should get in that forward
motion there we go just slow this down
as you can see this coming out lovely
piece of ear wax so that was quite a wide
thick piece there so we can see we're
clear the ear canal there's the eardrum now
gonna point out two things on the
eardrum this little white patch at the
bottom here and I'm also going to point
out the fact that the the hammer bone is
quite pronounced at the top of the
eardrum so what I want you guys to do in
the comments you've watched enough of
these videos can you explain to me
why that white patch is there and the
hammer bones are a little bit more
pronounced what could be going on
without a ear drum there's two separate
issues going on there I'm gonna test
your knowledge this week so pop it into
the comments below what you think is
going on there for me and I'll explain
it in the next video then for you so
this is the last patient in the
compilation lovely lady came through
feeling very very blocked up on one side
so we're just going to use the suction
tube here just
just to loosen this bit of ear wax quite a
tough old piece of ear wax this one though
really just jammed in you can see just
so hard that pieces so I'm not really
budging very well at all and thanks for
everybody as well who sent this
anniversary good wishes very much
appreciated we read them all thank you
so much for that and for the people who
have been sending in pictures of
themselves wearing our Merch
that's brilliant as well we've loved
those keep those coming that we've
that's absolutely brilliant
so you can see this ear wax is really really
hard we're gonna have to use the Jobson
horn here just to remove this piece so
I've just got down the right-hand side
of it now I'm just moving the ear wax across
to the right-hand ear canal wall you can see
just how tough that is the actual jobs
are always flicking and breaking chunks
off the front there but managed to get
behind it now now we've got a bit of
movement so we've got a very dry piece
of ear wax here at the entrance which is why
it's all kind of thick and white and and
it's just you can see it's really dry or
hardened up there got behind it now
slowly pulling this ear wax down there we
are just maneuvering this out of the
ear canal there we go
slowing everything down a little bit now
so you can see what's coming out look at
the length of that piece of ear wax that is
huge there's a fair fair piece of ear wax
that were and that was solid absolutely
solid like a twig we can see
there ear canals looking quite red
because obviously this ear wax has been
irritating and because that the ear canal
walls themselves are quite dry which
think it was this red appearance
sometimes just removing a little bit of
dry skin from the entrance to the ear canal
there here we go just see it coming down
getting rid of the last few pieces and
there we go good looking the ear drum
lovely and clear there look at the size
of that piece is like 2 centimetres long
boom I need the average ear canals
between two and two and a half
centimetres long and you saw what's that
3/4 of an inch
yeah fair old sized piece of ear wax there
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