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Alaska Anchorage -
Associates-Otorhinolaryngology
4001 Dale Street
Anchorage, AK 99508
(907) 561-1185
Alaska CENTer for Otolaryngology
2741 Debarr Road
Suite 408
Anchorage, AK 99508
(907) 279-8800
Alaska Ear Nose & Throat Inc
3340 Providence Dr
# 360
Anchorage, AK
(907) 261-3096
Alaska Ear Nose & Throat
3841 Piper Street
Anchorage, AK 99508
(907) 261-3096
(907) 373-1426
Advanced ENT
2741 Debarr Rd
# C302
Anchorage, AK
(907) 222-4820
Alyeska ENT
4001 Dale St
# 201
Anchorage, AK
(907) 561-1421
Alaska Family Ear Nose & Throat
1200 Airport Heights Drive
Anchorage, AK 99508
(907) 278-1016
Alaska Family ENT
Anchorage, AK 99501
(907) 272-1475
Geneva Woods Ear Nose & Throat
3730 Rhone Cir
# 203
Anchorage, AK
(907) 563-3515
Premier Ear Nose & Throat
4100 Lake Otis Pkwy
# 218
Anchorage, AK
(907) 563-6673
Fairbanks
Raugust Richard P MD -
Otorhinolaryngology-E N & T
1919 Lathrop Street
Suite 207
Fairbanks, AK 99701
(907) 456-7768
Juneau
Raster John F Md
10301 Glacier Highway
# 100
Juneau, AK 99801
(907) 790-4047
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Introduction & Overview to ENT
Doctors and Otolaryngology Specialists
Otolaryngology is the oldest medical specialty in the
United States and represents a branch of medicine that
specializes in the diagnose and treatment of conditions
and disorders of the ear, nose, and throat, and disorders
of the head and neck. The full name of the specialty is
otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, while their
practitioners are called otolaryngologists-head and neck
surgeons, otorhinolaryngologists (ORL), or more common
ENT specialists or physicians (ear, nose, throat).
ENT specialists are physicians trained in the medical
and surgical management and treatment of patients
suffering from conditions or disorders of the ear, nose,
throat, sinuses, larynx (voice box), oral cavity and
upper pharynx, as well as related structures of head and
neck. An ENT specialists expertise covers a wide
range of problems.
Problems, conditions, disorders and diseases treated
by ENT specialists:
1. Ear
- Hearing loss.
- Ear ache.
- Mastoiditis (infection of the mastoid process).
- Otitis externa (ear canal inflammation).
- Otitis media (middle ear inflmamation).
- Otitis interna (inner ear inflammation).
- Tinnitus (ear noised).
- Dizziness and balance disorders (such as benign
paroxysmal positional vertigo - BPPV,
labyrinthitis, and vestibular neuronitis).
- Perforated eardrum (due to infection, trauma,
explosion, or loud noise).
2. Nose
- Allergies.
- Sinusitis (acute and chronic).
- Rhinitis (irritation and inflammation of some
internal areas of the nose)..
- Empty nose syndrome (a nose crippled by over
resection of the middle or inferior turbinates of
the nose).
- Deviated septum
- Dysphonia
3. Throat
- Tonsillitis (an infectionof the tonsil).
- Laryngitis
- Vocal cord paralysis
- Vocal nodules, polyps and cysts
- Dysphagia/Swallowing conditions
- Gastroesophageal or laryngopharyngeal reflux
disease
- Esophageal conditions
- Throat cancer
- Laryngeal cancer
- Voice conditions
- Breathing conditions
Surgical procedures performed by ENT
specialists:
- Rhinoplasty (surgical procedure performed to
improved the function and/or appearance of the
nose).
- Septoplasty (corrective surgical procedure
performed to straighten the nasal septum).
- Adenoidectomy (surgical procedure performed to
remove the adenoids).
- Tracheotomy, also known as tracheostomy (surgical
procedure performed on the neck to create an
airway opening in the trachea).
- Myringotomy (surgical procedure performed to
create a tiny incision in the eardrum to relieve
the pressure caused by accumulation of excessive
fluid or pus).
- Rhytidectomy (facial lift).
- Blepharoplasty (functional and corrective
surgical procedure performed to reshape the upper
or lower eyelid).
- Browplasty, also knows as forehead lift or
browlift (cosmetic surgical procedure performed
to elevate the eyelid).
- Otoplasty (corrective cosmetic surgical procedure
performed to change the appearance of the
external ears).
- Genioplasty or mentoplasty (cosmetic procedure
performed to change the appearance of the chin).
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