RESULTS
Out of 60 patients the majority belonged to the age group 41-50 years.
Females were more commonly affected than males. Right side was more
commonly involved than the left side. Myringoplasty was performed in
both the dry as well as wet middle ear and the uptake was
86.67%,Figure 1 .Two quadrant perforation had the maximum graft
uptake and overall the P value was <0.0001,Table
1 .Air-Bone gap post op status was >10 DB in 38 patients(P
value -0.0035),10-20 DB in 20 patients(P value-0.1373) and
>20 DB in 2 patients(P value-0.0331) Table
2 .Causes of Failure was analysed and it was found that none of the
patients has Anterior Blunting. In three patient’s pre-op discharges
might be the cause of failure. Three patients gave a history of exposure
to loud sound and in the remaining three the ET dysfunction might be the
cause.
The Table 3. shows the association between Graft success rate
and the various prognostic factors. The pre-op and post op photograph
has been shown, Picture 1 .