Guest guest Posted March 2, 2006 Report Posted March 2, 2006 I imagine that I will feel better in the short term, but after reading this site I wonder what the long term prognosis will be like. Hopefully I'll be lucky and not have to have repeated surgeries. I wonder how often that happens. GerryOnce again the statistics are unreliable. They sometimes say that ctoma comes back in about 50% of canal wall up surgeries and about 12% for canal wall down. Bear in made that you may have a somewhat distorted view on this board. You are bound to get an imput from those with repeat problems. There are hundreds of other people who have turned up at the time of surgery and never been back. I presume that they may have had the disease resolved. Personal circumstances of how far the disease has advanced play a part in whether the problems will be ongoing. Also the diligence of the surgeon is a factor. Miss a few microscopic bits of ctoma and the disease has good chance of springing back (especially in CWU). Sometimes ctoma surgeries are very long. People assume that means the ctoma is very bad. Maybe not always - I'd prefer a doctor who spends 7 hours combing through your ear for every bit than one who whips it out in 2 hours and sends you on your way. Ctoma has a tendency to hide the bony pockets and in the furrows of the membrane lining the ear so getting all it is really a painstaking operation. Yes, unless you have a paricular fondness for surgery it's always to wake up on the other side of it. Good luck! Phil Phil No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.1/273 - Release Date: 02/03/06 Quote
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