Otosclerosis – Healthy.net https://healthy.net Mon, 02 Sep 2019 18:03:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://healthy.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-Healthy_Logo_Solid_Angle-1-1-32x32.png Otosclerosis – Healthy.net https://healthy.net 32 32 165319808 READERS’ CORNER:Otosclerosis https://healthy.net/2006/07/02/readers-cornerotosclerosis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=readers-cornerotosclerosis Sun, 02 Jul 2006 10:49:15 +0000 https://healthy.net/2006/07/02/readers-cornerotosclerosis/ One reader has this condition, and wonders what his options are as surgery is not safe. One sufferer had an operation after he was told there was a small chance that it would not be successful. The operation failed – for no apparent reason, according to the surgeon – but another consultant later told him that the operation fails in 75 per cent of cases. Now he has a state-of-the-art hearing aid, which sits in the ear canal. Despite the high level of failure, our correspondent said he would have the operation again as he’s come across a few people who have benefited from it. A homeopath says that homeopathy has a treatment for bone growth. It’s a constitutional problem that requires one-to-one consultation.

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