When chronic ear infection has eaten its way into the mastoid bone behind the ear, or worse, formed a cholesteatoma, antibiotics alone won't fix it. Mastoidectomy clears the disease and protects everything important behind the eardrum.
The mastoid is the honeycomb of bone that sits just behind your ear. In healthy ears it's full of small air cells. In long-standing chronic ear infection, especially with a particularly aggressive form called cholesteatoma, those cells fill with infected debris that can slowly damage hearing bones, the facial nerve and even the brain coverings if ignored.
Mastoidectomy is the operation that opens up the mastoid, removes all the disease, and reshapes the ear so it stops getting infected. The exact technique varies, canal-wall-up or canal-wall-down, and is chosen based on what we find. Sometimes hearing reconstruction is done in the same sitting, sometimes as a planned second-stage surgery.
A clear, no-jargon walk-through of the symptoms that lead to surgery, and the exact steps inside the operating theatre.
We recommend surgery when the disease is established and antibiotic-only treatment has clearly failed:
Mastoidectomy is performed under general anaesthesia, using an operating microscope.
A realistic timeline of how Rajkot patients typically recover, what's normal, what's not, when to call.
Hospital stay for observation. Mild discomfort, pressure dressing on ear.
Stitches removed. Most patients back to office-type work in 10-14 days.
Ear-canal packing removed. Healing checked.
Repeat audiometry. Long-term follow-up to ensure no recurrence.
Mastoidectomy in Rajkot typically costs ₹65,000 to ₹1,40,000 depending on disease extent, technique and whether ossicular reconstruction is included.
It's a careful, microsurgical procedure but not a 'major' surgery in the dramatic sense. Most patients spend 1-2 nights in hospital and return to normal life within 2 weeks.
Hearing preservation is a key goal. In many cases hearing improves; in others, the priority is to clear the disease and reconstruct hearing in a planned second sitting.
A slowly expanding pocket of skin in the middle ear that erodes bone if left untreated. Surgery is the only definitive treatment.
If the disease is established cholesteatoma or chronic suppuration with bone erosion, no, antibiotics will only mask the problem temporarily.
Usually 1-2 nights. Total recovery to normal life is 2-3 weeks for office work; longer for swimming and heavy activity.
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