hi everybody my name is Rhys barber I'm the audiologist here at audiology
associates thank you very much watching our video today if you've never come
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shall see you at the end so we have another ear wax compilation video for you
today guys this one with a lot of quite relatively easy ear wax extractions to do this
week in clinic so I thought we put a few of them together into this video so this
gentleman's come through reduced hearing and also a little bit of discomfort into
the jaw line in the neck which is quite common with ear wax so we've got the
standard size zoellner tube going in here really good grip on that ear wax you can
see it's coming away quite nicely a little bit of wet skin in there as well
this gentleman has been using quite a bit of olive oil to to try and soften
this up it's just all the moisturize the skin a little bit so here we go on the
other side
see all this ear wax getting sucked inside the the tube here getting away
some of the softer smaller pieces of the ear wax and then you've got these harder
chunks down which the oil hasn't managed to touch yet so that's settled in there
so we're just getting a good grip on this to try and take these harder pieces
out you can see the whole block of ear wax is starting to move now so as we
lift from the bottom so there we are as we wiggle it you can see a lot of that
dead skin underneath it's kind of very over moisturized wet skin the last few
blocks of ear wax to come away here we go and the ear drum looks nice and healthy
so this is what we removed altogether so you can see we've got quite a few little
pieces in there patient was very relieved we've had a question recently
asking does the patient have an instant relief they do they hear almost like
it's suddenly their hearing gets better when you take the ear wax away so another
classic q-tip wax here so very domed shape very thin layer of ear wax on the
outside edge very pushed in ear wax in the center so this patients been using
q-tips to clean their ears for quite a while and suddenly just something that
hearings just gone right down so just pulling the ear wax away from the side of
the ear canal wall before we can work on this center section of ear wax here you
always try and remove as much of it from the ear ear canal wall we can use it to the
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so just taking the dry ear wax you can see we're pulling it now away working on the
sides of this ear wax because somebody to get a better grip you can see it's quite
stretchy this ear wax it's been in here a little wire just starting to dry out so
it keeps getting pushed back in with a q-tip and it's just working its way out
now
there you go it's on its way little bit of ear wax
left in there so we'll just grab that next this was sort of the sticky bits
stuck to the the ear ear canal wall and there's the eardrum there so the same patient
now other side not quite as bad on this one you can see that there's a lot of
ear wax around the outside edge so we'll just clear that first of all still using
the standard size zoellner tube here lifting our ear wax from the ear canal wall
there you go just starting to get a grip on the underside of the ear wax because this
ear wax is quite sloped it's difficult to get a good suction grip so if you lift
it you can get hold of this smoother ear wax underneath there you go little bit of
dry skin on there as well I'm knocking out really cleanly and there's the ear
drum so this is what we remove from this patient so you can see the first two
pieces from the first ear the last piece there on the right hand side from
the second ear okay so another patient now this patient is very dry you can see
really really dry ear wax in here this patients been getting a few episodes of
discomfort and feels that the ear wax is is moving a little bit or blocking and
unblocking with her hearing you could see on the top left hand corner there
was a little gap in the ear wax so this is a lot of this is actually skins it's quite
white in color so you can see just start to peel away in here here we go a little
bit of dry ear wax really close to the eardrum which could have been the the
cause of some of the discomfort they've been experiencing so I'll just standard
size zoellner tube in here gently lifting
this ear wax it is very close to the ear drum but it's come away quite nicely and
this is the other ear so you can see very similar looking here there is a gap
at the top of this ear wax when you yawn , chew or swallow any jaw movement is going
to change the shape of the ear canal just ever so slightly and sometimes that can
block and unblock these small gaps around the ear wax or between ear wax on
the ear ear canal wall which will cause reduced hearing and then your hearing to come
back a lot so just using the standards zoellner tube on here as well just working
our way along this this ear ear canal wall
slowly and sticking everything here
there we go out it comes you can see the dry ear wax on the edge you drum looks good
this is what we removed from both ears here okay so a little bit softer in
appearance this ear wax this patient has come through with reduced hearing again
which tends to be the most common reason that people come through for their ear wax
removal so you can see just how soft this ear wax is so as we're lifting it it's
it's pulling the ear wax from deeper in the ear canal as well yes it's just going to
grip on this little bit of skin here at the bottom of the ear wax and then
wiggly another own to break the skin away otherwise what happens is the skin
just keeps getting sucked into the Zollner tube so what the patient would
hear there will be lots of squeaking which can be quite loud sometimes
so we'll just try to break that away just so we can get to the ear wax behind it
here we are it's a good plug of ear wax there we go your
drum looks good second ear ear canal from this patient now a
little bit of what looks like skin to the right hand side to me there so you
can see it there you go as it gets stuck there you can see that was
actually skin so we've got a good grip on it which will allow us to get a good
grip on the ear wax behind it I see it started to come out the ear canal but broke
away so we're just getting good grip on this last piece of ear wax and there we
are so you can see there to the right hand side that's that long strip of skin
we just took out on the second ear there you can seize long sort of tails
of dry skin on there on this one as well you very much for snow video today if
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