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Wax plugs and cotton buds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

David W. Sim
David W. Sim*
Affiliation:
(Glasgow)
*
David W. Sim, MSc, FRCS, Registrar, E.N.T. Department, Victoria Infirmary, Langside, Glasgow, G42 9TY.
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Abstract

Three hundred and ten patients were examined by otoscopy. Age, sex, social class and use of cotton buds for-aural toilet were recorded. The incidence of visually occlusive wax plugs in the external auditory canals was not significantly different between users and non-users of cotton buds, either in children or in adults.

Type
Main Articles
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 102 , Issue 7 , July 1988 , pp. 575 - 576
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1988

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