Ear Health Checks

What is an Ear Health Check? What do we do? How do we do it?

What is a healthy looking ear? What can we see?

What Is A Healthy Ear?
An Ear Health Check
How It Helps You

Healthy Ear

It is normal and healthy to have some wax in your ear. This only becomes a problem when the ear has too much wax in the ear canal. In a normal, healthy ear the ear canal appears the same colour as the skin and the eardrum is a light grey or pearly white. The eardrum is not bulging outward and should reflect light.

What is an Ear Health Check?

Your outer ear can show signs of infection or other issues and we will start here. Then using our Tympa system. we will view your ear canal, down to the ear drum and behind this to the middle ear.

What we see

If your ears a clear of wax and debris, then we should see your ear drum, we should also see the condition of your ear canal. When viewing your ear drum, we can see if it is healthy but also help diagnose health issues by seeing through it to the area behind.

Prevention Is Better Than Cure

Wax is normal, a small amount of wax in the ear is normal and will not need to be removed. However, if we can see this starting to build up and become a blockage in the ear, the earlier it is removed the better. Regular health checks can help keep treatments easier and stop further problems from occurring.

To See The Unseen

An ear health check can help diagnose ear infections, congestion in the middle or inner ear, perforated ear drums and many other health issues.