OPERATIONS FOR DEAFNESS
Dunedin Surgeon To Study Overseas
(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, December 15.
Mr Alan Wardale, senior ear, nose, and throat surgeon for the Otago Hospital Board and senior lecturer in ear, nose, and throat at the University of Otago Medical School,. will . leave Dunedin next month for a 10 weeks’ trip overseas to survey the latest developments in surgery for deafness.
Mr Wardale explained today that the fenestration operation, which involved letting hearing through to the inner ear by means of a new opening, had been obsolescent for several years. Since 1955, surgeons had been operating on a small rigid bone, called the stapes, at first merely trying to get it into movement again. Now, after two important international conferences in the United States earlier this year, standard practice seemed to be recognised as being to remove the stapes completely, replacing it with a vein graft and polythene or wire strut. This meant that there was no cavity to be looked after, and the patient was to all intents normal. Mr Wardale will visit leading surgeons in this field in London and the United States and review the techniques of the new operation.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29389, 16 December 1960, Page 24
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