Children with hearing loss who get ear tube surgery to address chronic ear infections may need tests before and after the procedure to see if their hearing improves, a U.S. study suggests.

If your child has frequent ear infections, your child's doctor may recommend ear tube surgery. It's the most common childhood surgery performed with anesthesia. More than half a million children ...

Additionally, the average age of ear tube patients is between 1 and 3 years old. What can I expect after my child has ear tube surgery?

Ear tube surgery does have risks: the small, but real risk of anesthesia and concern about the long-term effect of the plastic tube in the ear.

Children with hearing loss who get ear-tube surgery to address chronic ear infections may need tests to see whether their hearing improves, a study suggests.

An ear tube insertion is when a doctor inserts tiny tubes, known as tympanostomy tubes, into the eardrum to reduce ear infections and allow drainage of excess fluids.

In Peterborough, about 2.5 per cent of children under the age of 14 undergo ear-tube surgery annually. That means that, by grade 8, one in three children have had the surgery.

Study suggests tubes, adenoidectomy reduce fluid in the middle ear and improve hearing in the short term, but tubes did not improve speech or language for children with middle ear fluid.

Ear tube surgery is one of the most common pediatric procedures in the United States, with more than half a million surgeries performed each year. In fact, by age 3, approximately 1 in 15 children … ...