Also known as grommets, ventilation tubes, or tympanostomy tubes, the devices are implanted in the eardrum (tympanic membrane) to treat severe or recurrent middle ear infections with hearing loss.

into your eustachian tubes and potentially increasing the risk of having an ear infection,” Rubin warned. In rare cases, overdoing it could even rupture your eardrum. Rubin’s nose-blowing PSA ...

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Vitzthum, a Mankato Clinic audiologist, was performing a test known as tympanometry on the 2-year-old as part of a hearing ...