Conclusion
YouTube offers the opportunity of free and easy to access form of health information for patients but also the potential for biased, unvalidated misinformation potentially affecting patient decision making. At this time, the educational quality of YouTube videos pertaining to cholesteatoma is poor and content containing useful, evidence-based patient advice about cholesteatoma is lacking. The authors advocate that surgeons and surgical societies should upload evidence-based, unbiased and educational YouTube content about common surgical presentations and treatments to allow patients to make a more informed decision about their treatment.