Ear, Nose, Throat, and Dental problems Medical Answers

Under normal circumstances, the air pressure inside your ear will equal the atmospheric pressure outside. The Eustachian tube, which is an integral part of your middle ear, makes sure that...

The respiratory lining, right from your nose down to your lungs, is covered with mucus. The mucus performs a lot of protective functions in the body by trapping the micro-organisms...

The days of painful tooth extractions are almost completely gone from the field of dentistry nowadays. Patients are provided enough anesthesia to ensure that they are not going to feel...

Dentures can become loose due to a variety of reasons. The first and the most common reason is that the shape of the underlying bone changes with time. For some...

Cold sores are caused by a  Herpes Simples Virus infection. There are two types of Herpes Virus which cause cold sores, type 1 and type 2.  The type 1 HSV virus...

The mucus membrane lining the sinuses is extremely sensitive to minor irritants, allergies or any other foreign body. It reacts to this by increasing the production of mucus as a...

HPV or the Human Papilloma Virus has been identified to be responsible for the development of cervical cancer. The virus, more than 200 different kinds of which have been identified...

A number of reasons can be responsible for trouble in swallowing, ranging from the innocuous to the extremely serious. The way that doctors rule out the diagnosis is to move...

One of the peculiar things about tonsil infections is that they sometimes affect just one tonsil. When there is persistent swelling and tenderness on just one side of the throat...

Extreme facial pain is extremely distressing to patients. It can also take a long time to diagnose, since there are a number of structures that can be responsible for the...