Fauquier ENT Receives Award From YouTube

Fauquier ENT recently was awarded the "Silver Creator Award" from YouTube. Per YouTube, the silver button award is only given to video channels who have at least 100,000+ verified subscribers along with other criteria noted here : "Creator Awards are given at YouTube's sole discretion and we only recognize creators that have played by the rules. Channels are subject to review before awards are issued. That means rewarding creators that keep their accounts in good standi…

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9 Different Cough Types in Kids

I often see adults with a chronic cough that has been going on for months if not years, but this condition is quite rare. What is WAY more common is a child who develops a bad cough which often suggests some type of illness prompting a visit to the Pediatrician. Unlike an adult with a bad cough which either sounds dry or wet, a child with a bad cough often has a more varied sound quality due to their smaller airway diameters. That's why experienced pediatricians often can tell what ill…

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PENTOCLO Treatment of Mandibular Osteoradionecrosis

Patients with throat cancer not uncommonly undergo treatment with radiation in order to fully eradicate cancer presence. Along with the many potential side effects of radiation therapy is potential for osteoradionecrosis which basically is when the bone itself dies and becomes necrotic and/or exposed. This complication most often involves the jawbone and can occur even 5 years after radiation treatment has been completed. Although the typical scenario is a non-healing exposed bone after to…

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Alternatives to EpiPen

For a very long time, EpiPen was the only game in town with respect to emergency epinephrine injection for severe allergic anaphylactic reactions. Also for a long time, the EpiPen list price was only $50, but in 2007 when Mylan purchased the rights to the EpiPen, it hiked the price up to $600. In the ensuing uproar, Mylan did come out with a cheaper generic version of the EpiPen with a list price of only $300. However, several new competing products have come out to capitalize over the h…

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10 Different Sleep Apnea Surgeries Video

This animation quickly goes through 10 different surgical techniques to treat obstructive sleep apnea (OSA): 1) Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy , 2) UPPP , 3) Modified UPPP, 4) Expansion Sphincter Pharyngoplasty, 5) Lateral Pharyngoplasty, 6) Lingual Tonsillectomy, 7) Midline Partial Glossectomy, 8) Submucosal Base of Tongue Reduction , 9) Thyrohyoid Approximation, and 10) INSPIRE device. There are many different surgeries to treat OSA given the many different anatomies and causes for sle…

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2 New Animations to Address Sleep Apnea: Lateral Pharyngoplasty and ThyroHyroid Approximation

Two new animations have been created showing the steps involved to surgically correct obstructive sleep apnea . Both are relatively uncommon and address different areas of the throat prone to collapse during sleep. The thyrohyoid approximation (aka, hyoidthyroidpexia) above is used to address obstruction that occurs at the base of tongue level by moving the epiglottis and base of tongue forward via hyoid fixation to the thyroid cartilage. Lateral pharyngoplasty  below is used to address …

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