Source: DGNews  |  Posted 9 years ago

By Roberta Friedman
Special to DG News

SAN DIEGO, CA -- September 25, 2002 -- A low tech approach using ordinary cigarette paper can repair small tears in tympanic membranes, avoiding expert and costly myringoplasties, suggest results presented here Sept. 24th at the 106th annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology and the Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF).

Dr. Avishay Golz of the Rambam Hospital and Technion University, in Haifa, Israel, presented a retrospective study of 77 patients who had long standing perforations. Some of the tears were of 20 years