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Does a defective or perforated eardrum need surgery?

Not all defective or perforated eardrums need surgery. At times, antibiotic drops may be prescribed. If the eardrum does not heal on its own, the hole will be surgically repaired using either a paper patch or a graft of your own tissue.

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* Savings estimate based on a study of more than 1 billion claims comparing self-pay (or cash pay) prices of a frequency-weighted market basket of procedures to insurer-negotiated rates for the same. Claims were collected between July 2017 and July 2019. R.Lawrence Van Horn, Arthur Laffer, Robert L.Metcalf. 2019. The Transformative Potential for Price Transparency in Healthcare: Benefits for Consumers and Providers. Health Management Policy and Innovation, Volume 4, Issue 3.

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