Otitis Media (OM) is an inflammatory condition which usually involves muco-periosteal covering of middle ear cleft (partial or full) comprising of eustachain tube (ET), hypo-tympanum, meso-tympanum, epi-tympanum,additus and the mastoid air cells.
Myringoplasty was introduced by Berthold5 long back in 1878 and included the surgical closure of tympanic membrane perforation including removal of epithelium and grafting with skin. This period witnessed an improvement in surgical techniques with improved optics and emergence of microsurgery, thus making the Myringoplasty safer and lowered the rate of graft rejection. In this study we have compared the the grafting technique in type-1 tympanoplasty of in CSOM mucosal inactive type.
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