Ear, Nose & Throat Insights from the Mike Dilkes ENT Surgery

Tonsil stones are common, although people who have them often don't realise this. They cause a number of symptoms, including: bad taste bad breath chronic tonsil pain Tonsil stones form in cracks and crevices within the tonsils. They are created when food traps inside these cracks, becoming forced together into little lumps. Being food they are organic and therefore they rot. This sets up inflammation and soreness, and causes the bad taste and breath. Treatment can be with traditional tonsillectomy, but this is very painful and requires a few weeks off work. Better to laser vapourise them, often under local anaesthetic using anaesthetic spray only. This is a lunchtime procedure, a

What are the tell tale signs of ear infections, how they are caused and how can you resolve the pain?

Laser Tonsillectomy is the most effective and least painful way to treat tonsil pain. Find out more from leading specialist Mike Dilkes

Snoring can cause increased sleepiness during the day, due to poor quality sleep caused by a range of conditions from sleep arousal (nearly waking up due to the sound of your own snoring) to obstructive sleep apnoea, to your partner constantly digging you in the ribs. Daytime tiredness obviously affects the ability to function / perform properly. Often when you wake up, it is like you have had little refreshing sleep – you feel tired. Assess your daytime sleepiness You can assess the significance of your own daytime sleepiness by working out your Epworth sleepiness score, which has been designed and validated by sleep experts in Australia: Score these day to day situations as to the likeliho