Ear, Nose & Throat insights from Mike Dilkes, expert in ENT laser surgery

It looks more like a tooth coming out of the right tonsil in this man. However the treatment is the same, laser vapourise it right back...

Tonsil stones may need more than one laser tonsillectomy under local anaesthetic spray to completely eradicate them.

Tonsil stones appear on the tonsil surface. They form from food which gets jammed into holes and crevices on the tonsil surface.

This looks like a hole in the front lower part of the eardrum. But in fact the drum is red and retracted like it has fluid behind it. So...

Comparison of the virtues of local anaesthetic laser tonsillectomy with traditional tonsillectomy

Well it ought to be as traditional tonsillectomy is essentially unchanged over 70 years. Medicine has moved on rather a lot since then....

Tonsil stones can be well treated by laser tonsillectomy under local anaesthetic spray.

There remains a faint line at IgG so this test is still demonstrating my immunity to covid19 having had the disease 6 months ago.