Some Facts About Q-Tips and Ears

In this week's episode of " Girls " (Season 2; Episode 9 "Girls Gets Dark"), Hannah grappling with OCD, inserted a Q-tip deep into her ear canal and "heard air hiss out the hole" due to perforating her eardrum . Although this scene came out of a TV show, this scenario is not uncommon and results in many ENT office visits every month for not only eardrum perforations , but bleeding due to trauma to the ear canal skin. Some facts about Q-tips as it rela…

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Posterior Tongue Tie

An ordinary garden-variety tongue tie  (also known as ankyloglossia) is an uncommon condition whereby the tongue is anchored to the floor of the mouth preventing the tongue tip from moving freely. Patients with tongue tie have greater difficulty with: feeding if infant speech if school-age child french kissing if young adult (more info on adult tongue ties here ) Treatment is tongue tie release which can be done at any time if difficulties arise. In infants and young adults , this …

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