Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Kudos for the Articulating Curette!

Score another one for the Articulating Curette!

This blog is about my wife’s practice. She’s a family practice physician and the director of one of the family practice residency programs here in Toledo. She also sees patients, and a significant number of them are older individuals. The other day she saw a woman who was complaining of impacted cerumen, a common problem in the geriatric population. The poor woman was so impacted that she had really diminished hearing in both ears. The problem had been going on for some time, and no one had been successful in removing the impacted wax.

Enter the Articulating Safe Ear Curette. As my wife tells it, when she examined the woman with the otoscope, all she could see was a tiny sliver of an opening at the edge of a very large wax plug. She was able to slip the head of the Articulating Curette through that tiny opening past the plug. Once she was past the wax plug, she slid her fingers to flex the tip of the curette and was able to pull the entire hard wax plug from the woman’s ear canal. The patient was thrilled with the results and so happy she could finally hear again. My wife’s comments: “The Articulating Curette rocks!”

If any of you have experiences with the Articulating Curette, or with any of our Safe Ear Curettes or Lighted Ear Curettes, I would be interested in hearing them.

Until next time.

--James Huttner M.D