Ear, Nose and Throat and Head and Neck Surgery

Saint Peter's Division of Ear, Nose and Throat and Head and Neck Surgery offers medical and surgical treatment of illnesses and conditions involving the ear, nose and throat with specific expertise in treating head and neck cancers in children and adults.

Dr. Kianoush Sheykholeslami the Cheif of Ear, Nose and Throat and Head and Neck Surgery will be offering medical and surgical treatment of the following conditions:

1. Ear and hearing disease
2. Balance and vertigo problems
3. Ear tumors and chronic ear problems
4. Hearing loss and implants
5. One-sided deafness
6. Chronic ear infection and discharge
7. Head and neck tumors and masses
8. Salivary gland tumors
9. Thyroid nodules and tumors
10. Neck mass and neck tumors
11. Neck lymphadenopathy
12. Voice changes and voice box masses
13. Swallowing problems
14. Sinus disease and chronic sinusitis
15. Nasal polyps
16. Smelling and tasting problems
17. Nasal obstruction and difficulty breathing from the nose
18. Snoring
19. Obstructive sleep apnea surgery and implant
20. Enlarged tonsils and adenoids
21. Chronic tonsillitis
22. Bad smell of oral cavity
23. Tonsil stones
24. Oral sores, lesions and tumors

General/Head and Neck Otolaryngology

1. Excision of benign and malignant skin lesion
2. Harvesting of skin, fat or bone grafts of the head and neck, hip, trunk and extremities
3. Implantation of autogenous, homologous and allograft materials
4. Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy
5. Tongue tie and lip tie
6. Head and neck foreign body removal
7. Laryngoscopy
8. Bronchoscopy (rigid or flexible) with biopsy, foreign body removal or stricture dilatation
9. Ligation of head and neck vessels
10. Lip surgery including lip shave, partial or total resection with primary repair or by local flaps
11. Local tissue transfer (local flaps)
12. Myocutaneous flap (pectorales, trapezius, sternocleidomastoid)
13. Endoscopy of the larynx, tracheobronchial tree and esophagus to include biopsy, excision and foreign body removal
14. Esophageal surgery including diverticulectomy and cricopharyngectomy
15. Esophagoscopy (rigid or flexible) with biopsy, foreign body removal or stricture dilatation

Endoscopic Sinus

1. Orbital decompression
2. Caldwell Luc procedure
3. Minimally invasive endoscopic navigation-based sinus surgery
4. Open sinus surgeries
5. Epistaxis surgery and artery ligation
6. Excision of skull base tumor
7. Excision of tumor ethmoid/cribriform
8. Endoscopic transnasal cerebrospinal fluid leak repair
9. Radical surgery of the head and neck, including radical neck dissection and radical excision of the maxillary antrum for tumor
10. Ranula excision
11. Reconstruction aural atresia or ear deformity
12. Reconstruction of ear, eyelid, lips and nose
13. Repair of facial and mandibular fractures
14. Repair of CSF leaks with sinus or mastoid surgery via transnasal or transmastoid
15. Repair of fistulas – oral-antral, oral-nasal, oral-maxillary, oral-cutaneous, pharyngocutaneous, tracheo-cutaneous, esophagocutaneous
16. Rhinoplasty, septoplasty and turbinate surgery
17. Salivary gland and duct surgery, including plastic repair of salivary duct, ranula excision, submandibular gland resection and parotidectomy
18. Surgery of the nasopharynx
19. Surgery of the oral cavity, including soft palate, tongue, mandible, composite resection and neck dissection
20. Surgery of the oral pharynx and hypopharynx
21. Surgical removal of teeth in association with radical resection or facial fracture repair
22. Tongue surgery, reduction and local tongue flaps
23. Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy
24. Surgery of the larynx, including biopsy, partial or total laryngectomy and fracture repair
25. Suspension microlaryngoscopy
26. Tracheal resection and repair
27. Tracheostomy
28. Reconstructive procedure of the trachea and upper airway
29. Thyroidectomy
30. Parathyroidectomy
31. Skin grafting procedures, full thickness or split thickness
32. Scar revision
33. Repair of lacerations, scar revision and removal of lesions

 

Sleep Apnea Surgery

1. Trans-oral robotic surgery for cancer and obstructive sleep apnea
2. Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP)
3. Inspire (Hypoglossi Nerve Stimulator) and sleep implant for obstructive sleep apnea
4. Multi-level obstructive sleep apnea surgery
5. Drug-induced sleep endoscopy

 

Otology

1. All forms of surgery on the auditory canal, the tympanic membrane and the contents of the middle ear including tympanoplasty, mastoidectomy and middle ear surgery (excluding stapedectomy)
2. Reconstruction congenital aural atresia
3. Decompression membranous labyrinth cochleosaculotomy and encolymphatic sac operation
4. Electrophysiologic monitoring of cranial nerves VII, VIII, X, XI and XII
5. Labyrinthectomy
6. Repair fistula (oval window and round window)
7. Middle/anterior fossa skull base surgery
8. Osseo integrated implants for auricular prosthesis and bone anchored hearing aid
9. Radical mastoidoidectomy
10. Trans-oral robotic surgery for cancer and obstructive sleep apnea
11. Resection CP angle tumor with neurosurgery team
12. Stapedectomy
13. Mastoidectomy
14. VII nerve decompression/upper lid gold weight placement
15. VII nerve repair/substitution

 

Facial Cosmetic Surgery

1. Facial nerve repair
2. Facial reanimation procedures, gold weight and canthopexy/plasty
3. Harvesting of skin, fat or bone grafts of the head and neck, hip, trunk and extremities
4. Implantation of autogenous, homologous and allograft materials
5. Blepharoplasty
6. Brow lift
7. Endoscopic facial surgery
8. Liposuction or lipo-injection procedure for contour restoration, head and neck; to include harvest from trunk and extremities
9. Mentoplasty and malarplasty
10. Rhytidectomy
11. Skin resurfacing via chemical peel, dermabrasion or laser
12. Excision of benign and malignant skin lesion