{"id":138,"date":"2012-01-29T21:45:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T05:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/?p=138"},"modified":"2014-12-08T12:40:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T20:40:37","slug":"ear-nose-and-throat-ent-specialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/2012\/01\/29\/ear-nose-and-throat-ent-specialist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) Specialist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ear, nose and throat specialist (ENT) is a physician trained in the medical and surgical treatment of the ears, nose, throat, and related structures of the head and neck (Fig. 1).<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/33\/US_Navy_040203-N-4182M-001_National_Naval_Medical_Center_physician,_Capt._David_Thompson_performs_an_ear_tube_surgery_on_a_young_hospital_patient.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"ENT specialist\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/33\/US_Navy_040203-N-4182M-001_National_Naval_Medical_Center_physician,_Capt._David_Thompson_performs_an_ear_tube_surgery_on_a_young_hospital_patient.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 1. Ear, nose and throat specialist (ENT)<\/h5>\n<h3>Practice<\/h3>\n<p>ENTs have special expertise in managing diseases of the ears, nose and nasal passage sinuses, larynx (voice box), oral cavity and upper pharynx (mouth and throat), as well as structures of the neck and face (Fig. 2). The well trained ENT specialist has a thorough knowledge of all of the organs and physical structures in the head and neck region. Ear nose and throat specialists are trained to handle surgeries where organs need to be removed; these may include the adenoids (Fig. 3)\u00a0(known as\u00a0 <em>adenoidectomies<\/em>), the tonsils (Fig. 4) (known <em>as\u00a0 tonsillectomies<\/em>) as well as treatments for \u00a0nosebleeds, ear-aches, hearing loss, dizziness, hoarseness, and sinus disease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/files\/2012\/01\/head_neck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-374\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/files\/2012\/01\/head_neck-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"head_neck\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/files\/2012\/01\/head_neck-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/files\/2012\/01\/head_neck.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 2.\u00a0structure of the neck and face<\/h5>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a7\/Adenoids_%28PSF%29.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"adenoids\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a7\/Adenoids_%28PSF%29.png\" alt=\"adenoids\" width=\"239\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 3. Adenoids<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/84\/Throat_with_Tonsils_0011J.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"tonsils\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/84\/Throat_with_Tonsils_0011J.jpeg\" alt=\"tonsils\" width=\"318\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 4. Tonsils<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ear, nose and throat specialist (ENT) is a physician trained in the medical and surgical treatment of the ears, nose, throat, and related structures of the head and neck (Fig. 1). Figure 1. Ear, nose and throat specialist (ENT) Practice ENTs have special expertise in managing diseases of the ears, nose and nasal passage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254484],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-medical-field-professionals-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/earlychildhoodintervention3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}