The picture above show a plastic bobbin tube inserted by a pair of micro cup forceps.   The lower right hand insert shows thick glue suctioned from the middle ear cavity.  The patient was a five year old who had chronic mucoid otitis meda (glue ear). Indications for ear tubes include:

• The treatment of bilateral chronic serous otitis media being present for at least three months and causes a hearing loss.

• The treatment of recurrent or persistent acute otitis media. 

• The treatment of severely retracted eardrums with retraction pocket formation or extreme thinning and retraction of the eardrum (atelectasis).