“…Foreign body in the external auditory canal is common and often treated in an outpatient basis. The foreign bodies commonly found in the external auditory canal include animate and inanimate objects like stones, insects, erasers, buttons, vegetable pieces, cereals and pulses, cotton ball, bits of metal from welding, most common being beads, paper/tissue paper or popcorn kernels [1,2]. A tympanolith (stone in the middle ear) is a calcified body in the tympanic cavity, which can be extrinsic (foreign body) or intrinsic ( purulent dried discharge or stagnant mucus acting as a nidus for calcification) [3].…”