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Southern Cross Gillies Hospital - Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery
Private Surgical Service, ENT/ Head & Neck Surgery
This is where you will come to have your surgery performed. The visits to your surgeon before and after surgery will be at their consulting rooms.
Mastoidectomy
An incision (cut) is made behind the ear and the air containing space (called the mastoid) is opened. A cortical mastoidectomy involves clearing out diseased tissue in the mastoid cells leaving the ear canal alone. A modified radical mastoidectomy involves joining the spaces of the middle ear canal and the mastoid together to provide an ear that is safe and dry, and hopefully retain some functional hearing.
