PROPHYLACTIC TREATMENT AFTER VENTILATION TUBE INSERTION - COMPARISON OF VARIOUS METHODS

Otitis media is recognized as one of the most common diseases of child hood. Insertion of tympanostomy tubes for the treatment of otitis medi a is the most frequently performed otologic operation, and postoperati ve otorrhea is its most common complication. Many authors have suggest ed various reasons for posttympanostomy otorrhea, and many different p rophylactic treatments were proposed in recent years to prevent this b othersome and frustrating complication. This retrospective study was d esigned to investigate and compare the efficacy of various prophylacti c treatments and to define the most effective method of reducing the r ate of postoperative otorrhea.