Ear, Nose, Throat, and Dental problems Medical Answers

Meniere's disease is defined as a disorder of the inner ear where the patient experiences the following issues: A feeling that the head is spinning, called vertigo. Fluctuating hearing loss which...

One of the reasons "pain" is so often misdiagnosed is that "pain" isn't a very helpful description of what's going on. Different kinds of pain have different causes. You can...

General overview The medical term given for smelling any odour which isn't present - whether it be smoke, dirt, cabbages, etc. - is phantosmia or olfactory hallucinations. The odours which are experienced vary from person to...

Every year about 500 children worldwide wind up in the hospital because they got a husk of popcorn stuck in their throats. Popcorn actually isn't the most common problem food; more...

It's not unusual for women to get nosebleeds right about the time they get their periods, or when they change brands of birth control. The reason is changes in hormone...

As many as eight in every 10 women are unhappy with their breasts. While asymmetry, shape, and having excessively large breasts are all causes of unhappiness, having very small breasts...

The feeling of something "crushing" your throat, leading to sensations of choking, isn't just frightening but also a symptom that absolutely deserves to be taken seriously. Unfortunately, the cause isn't...

The Eustachian tube is a 3-4 cm long structure that connects the middle ear with the back of the nose. Its main function is to allow the mucus to flow...

It can be an extremely unpleasant sensation to constantly have an increased amount of pressure in the ears. The way our ear anatomy is structured means that an equal amount...

Clicking in the throat is an uncommon problem, however, not one that is entirely unheard of. In previous years, doctors have suggested that patients complaining of clicking while swallowing were hypochondriacs...