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hi guys not a compilation video for this one because this was such a
long extraction we thought we just put this one here on its own for you
so this gentleman middle-aged Gent with reduced hearing
he's quite regular ear wax builder so he's been using a bit of olive oil before
he's come through just soften the ear wax up I know you guys a lot a big fan of the
the sort of ear wax videos but bear with this one because the first
bits you can see a little bit of hair but it gets a bit clearer as we go
on so what we're doing here is using the standard size zoellner tube first of all
just to clear some of the debris from the ear canal walls and some of the ear wax on
the ear canal walls which just helps us to get a better grip on some of the ear wax to
remove so you can just see the first piece coming away now you can see it's
got a nice Sheen to it it's quite soft you can see get sucked into the zoellner
tubes were pulling it out so we just allows just to go in a little bit
further than with a camera past those hairs anyway yes you can just you're
starting to get a grip on the ear wax if you're not already subscribed guys if
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on so this is much deeper ear wax this time you can see lots of hairs embedded in
there obviously this gentleman's been trimming is here in the ear canal a lot
of those hairs then disappear deeper into the ear canal and gets stuck into the
ear wax if you've seen here e plugs were removed on some of the other videos
we've done on the channel then you'll know it binds the ear wax together so really
tightens this ear wax out so not the easiest one to to get rid of the other difficult
you have with these hairy plugs is when you're trying to use suction to remove
them you can't always get a great suction grip because the hairs are
sitting on top and it will just reduce the reduce the suction grip on the ear wax
which can make it a bit more problematic to remove we're just going to tidy up a
little bit of ear wax at the entrance to the ear canal here before we go in and get the
next section away so we're just turning this ear wax around now just to get a grip
on that softer section of ear wax at the side of the the plug which allows us
then together much better and stronger suction
grip and she's just wiggling it up and down moving this ear wax around just trying
to get a better a better grip on it
conceal firmly wedged in this ear wax is just starting to turn a little bit now
here's our a little bit annoying because you'll lose the suction grip every so
often it's holding the suction on there just for a second or two allowing that
suction group to build give a much tighter hold on that ear wax so we've got me
there's a clump of hair in the center of the ear wax which gives the crocodile
forceps to remove that sometimes they he is holding on tight enough
as you pull you can see the whole thing moving down the ear canal but then the hairs
just pull out so it you get so far with it but it just won't allow you to but by
taking those hairs away then we can look at getting a better grip on it with
these on a tube
can see just hope firmly wedged this is in
if you notice the camera getting a little bit misty every so often it's
just one or two things either it can just be a little bit of moisture in the
ear canal which is just hazing up the front of the camera or because this person's
be using a lot of olive oil in there sometimes you get the little hairs on
the outer part the ear canal will hold olive oil on them so as you pass through
it picks a little bit up on the camera
so we're just going to use the crocodile forceps again now to try and get a grip
on this plug now lots of people say odd you'll really dig the forceps in get a
good grip that's what you know that'll help to get it out the difficulty with a
plug like this is if you push too hard to it with a crocodile forceps it
actually pushes it further back into the ear
so you've taken time to bring it forwards now there's the forceps going
it just pushes up much much deeper and you can see there so as you try and put
a bit of pressure on it to get a grip on it
it actually slides it further in because the olive oils lubricate the ear canal so
we're just working on the other side now just to see if we can bring that for us
just try it anyway to turn this turn this plug around plugs like this are
quite frustrating because it it's difficult to get a really good grip it's
difficult to use any other tool sometimes to get in there because we
want to bring this much deeper down the ear canal sorry vom deeper in the ear canal so
much further forward so I've got a little gap at the top here so I'm just
going to get behind it now the plug isn't solid enough to hold together so
you can get a really good scoop with the Jobson horn that's what you find is you
just break a center section away so what we're going to do now is tidy up the
edges so you don't be digging wildly you know and blindly into this ear wax with the
Jobson horn you've got no idea how deep you are there and as far as things like
eardrum is concerned is there a bend in your car you're gonna be pushing
straight into so we're just going to keep tidying
the outside edge flatten this off again now
because he just so firmly wedged in this ear wax is here we go and just see it
starting to move and it's just as you get it so far you break that section
hold on it there we go just starting to wiggle it around the corners now you can
see I'm trying to stay low on the ear wax trying to keep get a grip of that softer
sections on the outside edge
who got so far just waiting for it to maneuver around the rest of the corner
don't forget people have natural bends in their ear canal so sometimes you get
it so far you have to get around a bend just using the crocodile for so it's
because we keep losing grip again I've got a good grip this time I just broke
away at the end trust me equally as frustrating to watch on my end as it is
from yours
okay back to the forceps because as we're suctioning this you can see it's
pulling hairs from deeper in there we go it's almost out again nearly there
you're going just starting to see it coming out of the ear canal now then get by
now we go to the outside edge of the ear ear canal we can try and get behind it with
the Jobson horn it's starting to come away
here we go so you can see how long and dark those piece o is still more in
there now because the ear wax is start to break up a little bit now we can get in
there a little bit more effectively with the micro suction and they still more
there we go there's the eardrum so this is the same patient but the second ear
now so you can see this ear wax is much softer still a lot of hearing beds and a
little bit of a gap to the top left hand side they're just going a good look at
that gap so because it's a little bit softer we can sometimes get a better
suction grip on it see the skin just start to lift there
starting to get a much better grip on this this ear wax on the other side you
can see the hair getting pulled into that into the zoellner tube there
now what's happening with this the reason we're struggling so much here is
it's a long straight piece that's come out that's quite hardened up so we're
the outer Bend of the ear canal is we have to get the end out and then slowly
work it around this Bend so we're gonna use the the Jobson horn to get in there
and do that
there you go see a hair filled let me see how just how many hairs are in that
it's quite matted in there and there's the eardrum there that's what we removed
so you can see there the long section here to the right-hand side there was
lots of a clumps of hair coming up with a crocodile forceps and that's what came
out of both ears there thank you very much for stopping here today if you did
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