Otolaryngology
The Ear, Nose & Throat Practice at Children's Hospital Central California specializes in diagnostic and therapeutic services for infants, children, and adolescents with head, neck and airway disorders. We provide inpatient, outpatient and emergency care to over 2,000 patients annually. Each year our otolaryngologists perform 1,400 ENT surgeries. Our surgeons perform 34% more inpatient surgeries for ENT than any other pediatric hospital in our peer group.
Services Offered & Conditions Treated
- Recurrent ear infections
- Tonsil and adenoid disease
- Breathing disorders
- Head and neck masses
- Recurrent sinus infections
- Croup syndromes
- Pediatric airway disease
- Subglottit stenosis
- Tracheo/laryngomalacia
- Pediatric sinusitis
- Head and neck disorders
- Congenital muscular torticollis
- Branchial cleft abnormality
- Thyroglossal duct cyst
- Lymphatic masses
- Neck abscess
- Pilomatrixoma
- Outreach education
- Laser surgery for airway problems
- Endoscopic sinus surgery
- Ankyloglossia
- Choanal atresia
- Cholesteatoma
- Chronic drooling
- Foreign bodies of the ear, nose, throat, airway & esophagus
- Hearing loss
- Hoarseness
- Hypernasal speech
- Laryngomalcia
- Macroglossia
- Nasal polyps
- Otitis media
- Sleep apnea
- Stridor
- Airway obstruction
- Trauma of head and neck
- Vocal cord nodules or paralysis
- Deviated septum
- Pediatric mastoiditis
- Rhinitis
- Paranasal sinus disease
- Congenital infections and neoplastic masses
- Sinus surgery with state of the art imaging
- Interoperative nerve monitoring for head and neck surgery
- Complex airway reconstruction with perioperative intensive care management
State of the art laser technology