Ear, Nose and Throat
Ear, nose and throat care
When it comes to ear, nose and throat (ENT) care, the specialist staff at Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Group offer comprehensive services to treat a wide range of conditions. Our otolaryngologist takes a dynamic and multidisciplinary approach to your health, pairing advanced technology with compassionate care to ensure you receive the exceptional ENT care you deserve.
Ear, nose and throat conditions we treat:
Otolaryngology, more often known as ENT or ear, nose, and throat care, is dedicated to the medical and surgical assessment and treatment of a wide range of conditions that affect the sinuses, ears, throat, esophagus, and many other parts of the head and neck. Some of the issues we most commonly see and treat include:
- Broken or fractured nose
- Cancers of the mouth and throat
- Deviated septum
- Difficulty hearing
- Difficulty smelling
- Dizziness or vertigo
- Ear bleeding or drainage
- Ear infection and pain (otitis)
- Excess earwax buildup
- Grave’s disease
- Hoarseness or voice changes
- Lipomas of the neck
- Nasal polyps
- Noise in the ear (tinnitus)
- Nosebleeds (epistaxis)
- Overactive parathyroid
- Overproduction of mucus
- Salivary gland inflammation
- Salivary gland masses
- Sinus headaches
- Sinus infection (sinusitis)
- Sinus pressure
- Skin cancers of the head/face/neck
- Throat pain
- Thyroid cancer
- Thyroid nodules
- Tonsillitis
- Tonsil stones
- Trouble swallowing
- Vocal cord paralysis
- Vocal cord polyps
ENT treatments we provide:
We are able to provide both medical and surgical interventions and treatments, depending upon your specific needs. Offering same day appointments and working in tandem with the audiology and speech specialists at Mountainside Medical Center, we strive to provide you with the comprehensive care you need to restore and maintain your health. Some of the services we provide include:
- Cauterization for recurrent nosebleeds
- Cerumen removal (earwax removal)
- Excision of small skin lesions
- Fine needle aspiration biopsy
- Incision and drainage of hematoma or abscess
- Intratympanic steroid injection
- Myringotomy
- Tympanostomy tube placement
In some cases where more intensive treatment or diagnostics are needed, our department works with Mountainside Medical Center to provide surgical procedures, including:
- Adenoidectomy
- Balloon dilation of the eustachian tubes
- Balloon sinuplasty
- Biopsy of a lymph node
- Esophageal dilation
- Excision of oral lesion
- Excision of vocal cord lesion
- Hemithyroidectomy
- Nasal polyp removal
- Nasal turbinate reduction
- Parathyroidectomy
- Reduction of nasal fracture
- Salivary gland resection
- Septoplasty
- Sinus surgery
- Throat biopsy
- Thyroidectomy
- Tonsillectomy
