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hi everybody this is Rhys barber from audiology associates thank you very much
watching our ear wax removal video compilation video I think there's
two patients in this one so we can see this first patient has quite a large
chunk of ear wax sitting in the you can I'm not too deep in only about a third of
the way into the ear canal so we're just going to use the standard size zoellner
tube here so a little bit of micro suction and what I'm going to do first
is try and unstick this we always try and get these pieces out if we can in
one piece isn't always possible we always try so the first thing we do is
try and unstick it from the ear canal walls as you can see it's just starting to lift
there from the ear canal wall itself now when you unstick it sometimes you'll
get a really good bit of movement then into the the ear wax itself so with a bit of
a wiggle you're going to just start to see it the whole thing moving forwards
just trying to get a better grip and use the Jobson horn though just to get
behind it we've got it we've got it moving so if it's possible to get all
that in one go anyway yep so you quite a big chunk of ear wax there and there is the
eardrum so all came out in one big piece this is the same patient but the second
ear now much wetter ear wax around the outside edge just same as on the other
ear just unpeeling the edges first before we start working on this central
section of ear wax you can see we've got a bit of movement to this
just unsticking and trying to wiggle this ear wax up and down bits just keep
breaking away on there at the moment now we can't bring this out straight because
it's too long so we're trying to bring it out and turn it to the left at the
same time which one should allow us to get the whole piece out then here we up
you can see some White dead skin underneath there and there's the eardrum
it's a little bit of ear wax around the entrance here and also at the top of the
eardrum as well now the reason I want to clear the top of the eardrum especially
above the hammer bone which is the red red and beige line you can see just
sloping off to the left-hand side sometimes you can get a little what they
call rettraction pockets in that area so I just want to give this a bit of a
clean just to see what's going on underneath it if it was anywhere else on
the eardrum now I probably would have just left it there but I just want to
make sure there's no retraction pocket or anything under here so just take a
bit of this ear wax away but it's looking good
yeah there's no retraction pocket there so while we're in we'll just take a
little bit off the right side as well here we are so this is what we removed
so you can see quite large plugs there and some very white dead skin so about
an inch altogether so this is our second patient very similar story quite a large
blockage of ear wax in here looks very wet so this patients be using a little
bit of olive oil to soften this up
maybe I've got a grip see it just starting to move forwards
sometimes the entrance the ear canal can be a little bit narrower than the ear canal
itself so as you bring the ear wax forwards as what's happened here the ear wax gets
jammed gets stuck in the entrance to the ear canal so by wiggling up and down it
helps to loosen it and break bits off and that will sometimes make it small
enough to be able to work it out to the ear canal so you can see lots of little
pieces breaking away looking for any part of the ear wax where we can get a good
grip to help maneuver this out here we are so just working this out
sticking with the standards zoellner tube slowly maneuvering this piece of ear wax out
of the ear canal now so we're just bringing it down from the top just trying to roll
the ear wax to find a better more secure grip so you can see the old pieces are
just starting to break away from it so every piece that comes away he's going
to make this block of ear wax a little bit smaller that makes it a little bit easier
to get out just trying to stretch the side of the ear canal there just here we go
there it is a little blob of ear wax to the right side of the ear canal entrance we'll
just get rid of that here it goes and there's the ear drum
so this is what we removed you can see some quite dry pieces of ear wax in there
and that's what we removed in inches
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