Otolaryngology Program
Who we are
The General Pediatric Otolaryngology Program at Boston Children's Hospital provides care including diagnostic evaluation and surgical therapy for children of all ages with diseases or conditions of the head and neck, including the ears, nose, and throat. We're also the largest pediatric otolaryngology department in the nation.
Our expertise
- Our physicians have pinpointed several common causes of recurrent ear infections.
- Children's also closely studies the psychological implications of hearing loss.
- At Children's, we perform more than 6,000 pediatric ear, nose and throat surgeries each year.
Did you know? Deafness GeneChip
Children's team of physicians and researchers have created a Deafness GeneChip that allows us to simultaneously screen for mutations in many different genes that are known to cause deafness.
Did you know? Genetic research
Children's researchers are searching for novel genes involved in hearing loss by studying large families with inherited hearing loss. If you have a large family with hearing loss (five or more persons with hearing loss) and are interested in participating in a study to find the responsible gene, please contact us.
Conditions & Treatments
- Allergic rhinitis
- Angiofibroma
- Audiogram
- Brain abscess
- CT scan (CAT scan) with sedation or anesthesia
- Cholesteatoma
- Chondrosarcoma
- Cleft lip and cleft palate
- Conditioned play audiometry
- Cysts and sinuses of the head and neck
- Deviated septum
- Ear pain
- Endoscopic sinus surgery
- Evoked potentials
- Fibrosarcoma of the head and neck
- Haemophilus influenzae infections
- Hearing loss
- Hemangiopericytoma
- Hoarseness
- Kabuki syndrome
- Laryngomalacia (congenital laryngeal stridor)
- Measles (rubeola)
- Moebius syndrome
- Myringotomy (Ear tubes)
- Nose and throat anatomy
- Otitis media
- Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement
- Pharyngitis and tonsillitis
- Pierre Robin sequence
- Primary percutaneous gastrojejunostomy
- Sensorineural hearing loss
- Speech audiometry
- Stuttering
- Swimmer's ear (otitis externa)
- Teratoma
- Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy (T&A)
- Toxoplasmosis
- Trisomy 18 and 13
- Angelman syndrome
- Apert syndrome
- Auditory brainstem response evaluation (ABRE)
- CT scan
- Cerumen (ear wax) impaction
- Chondromas
- Chondrosarcoma of the head and neck
- Cochlear implants
- Conventional audiometry
- Desmoid tumor
- Ear anatomy and physiology
- Ehlers danlos syndrome
- Epiglottitis
- Fibrosarcoma
- Giant cell tumor
- Hamartoma
- Hearing loss in babies
- Hemifacial microsomia
- In Utero TORCH infections
- Laryngeal papilloma
- Mastoiditis
- Microtia
- Myasthenia gravis
- Newborn senses
- Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
- Otoacoustic emissions
- Pfeiffer syndrome
- Physical exam for adolescent males
- Pollen allergy
- Saethre-Chotzen syndrome
- Sleep studies (polysomnography and multiple sleep latency testing)
- Stridor
- Subglottic stenosis
- Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
- Thyroglossal duct cyst
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Treacher Collins Syndrome
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