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Kansas City
Guastello Joseph R
4320 Wornall Road
Suite 512
Kansas City, MO 64111
(816) 753-5663
ENT Associates of Greater
Kansas City PC
1004 Carondelet Drive
Kansas City, MO 64114
(816) 942-7200
Burroughs Nathan
Podrebarac Pierre
9411 North Oak Trfy
Kansas City, MO 64155
(816) 468-8820
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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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