Otolaryngology

About Us

The Department of ENT – Head & Neck Surgery at Christian Medical College is equipped to deal with all disorders related to the Ear, Nose, Sinus, Throat, Head & Neck, the Anterior Skull Base diseases in paediatric and adult patients. The expert team of senior ENT Surgeons, audiologists, speech and swallowing therapists work in close collaboration with the specialties of Neurology, Pulmonology, Endocrinology, Cardiology, Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Plastic Surgery and Pathology for management of ENT and Head & Neck Disorders.

Our ENT care is personalized. You can be assured that we do not recommend surgery unless it is necessary. Further, our treatment does not just end with the surgery, we plan regular follow-up with all our patients post-surgery.

We have dedicated specialized Clinics for Snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea, Head & Neck surgery, Vertigo, Allergies, Swallowing disorders, Otology, and Thyroid surgery.

Key Features

Diagnosis of diseases of ear and vertigo, including state-of-the-art equipment for microscopic ear surgeries
Diagnosis of allergies, diseases of the nose, sinuses and related tumors, including modernized endoscopic surgeries for their management
Diagnosis of tumors of the thyroid, salivary glands, jaw, mouth, voice box, swallowing passage, including advanced surgeries for their removal and reconstruction
Difficult airway management
Snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea management as an out-patient basis
Conducting universal newborn hearing screening as essential to pick up the hearing loss in early childhood for timely intervention aiding early speech and language development

Quick Facts

Equipped with advanced microscopic ear surgeries, endoscopic nose and skull base surgeries requiring no incision and no scar

Difficult airway management in emergencies

Providing multidisciplinary team management of Head & Neck Cancers

Universal Newborn Hearing Screening

Out-patient management following evidence-based clinical practice in adults and children

Our Expertise

Microscopic ear surgeries – creating a new hearing mechanism by Tympanoplasty, Ossicular Chain Reconstruction, and Mastoidectomy
Endoscopic nose and sinus surgeries – no incision and no scar by Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery, Endoscopic Dacryocystorhinostomy
Endoscopic Skull Base Surgeries for repair of defects causing brain water to leak out and also for selective brain tumors in collaboration with the Neurosurgery
Surgeries for snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea
Airway surgeries which can be critical to life
Oncological surgeries to remove head & neck cancers – Neck dissection, Laryngectomy, Thyroidectomy, Parotidectomy, Maxillectomy, Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma excision, Lateral temporal bone resection, Trans-sphenoidal excision of the pituitary mass

Clinical Services

Chronically discharging ear and hearing loss
Sudden loss of hearing
Diseases leading to deviation of mouth and facial paralysis
Vertigo and imbalance
Diseases of sinuses, including nasal polyps and invasive fungal infections
Allergies related to upper airway
Bleeding from nose
Difficult airway
Swallowing disorders
Foreign bodies in the upper airway, swallowing passage, nose, and ear
Diseases in children leading to snoring, breathing difficulty, poor hearing causing learning disability, swallowing problems, speech disorders and rare cancers of head & neck
Snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea
Cancers of mouth, jaw, voice box, swallowing passage, thyroid, salivary glands, ear, and nose
CSF Rhinorrhoea (leaking of brain water from the nose)