John Hamilton's surgery

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Mr Hamilton has a specialist interest in Ear Surgery in both adults and children. He also provides a core ENT service. He is well known for his use of audit to objectively analyse and improve his surgery.

The following provides a sample of the procedures that Mr Hamilton performs:

Outpatient procedures

• Ear wax removal (without syringing)
• Cleaning and treatment of discharging ears
• Epley manoevre
• Endoscopic examination of nose and throat

External ear surgery

• Meatoplasty
• Canalplasty
• Reconstruction of ear canal
• Pinnaplasty

Middle ear surgery

• Grommet insertion
• Repair of ear drum perforation
• Treatment of pars tensa retraction pocket
• Treatment of cholesteatoma
• Ossiculoplasty
• Stapedotomy - Stapes surgery for otosclerosis
• Mastoid obliteration

Inner ear surgery (otoneurosurgery)

• Gentamicin infusion for Meniere's Disease
• Resurfacing for Dehiscent Superior Semicircular Canal
• Facial nerve decompression
• Repair of CSF fistula

Skull Base Surgery

• Glomus tumour surgery (including Infratemporal fossa A approach)
• Epidermoid cysts of temporal bone / petrous apex
• Tumours of external ear canal and middle ear
• Infratemporal fossa tumours

Core ENT Surgery

• Tonsillectomy
• Adenoidectomy
• Septoplasty
• Endoscopic sinus and polyp surgery