Medical Procedures

Correcting Nasal Airway Obstruction

Your quality of life may be affected by decreased breathing and associated stuffiness and nasal congestion.  Some people find difficulty breathing through their noses to be a mere nuisance while others are significantly impacted by their nasal airway obstruction.

A person's nasal obstruction may be caused by either a medical problem or an anatomical or structural condition of the nose.  In either case, it's time to turn your trust to an Ear, Nose Throat (ENT) specialist like Dr. Moravec. He will perform diagnostic procedures to help determine the cause of your airway obstruction.

If you have a structural condition of your nose such as a deviated septum, you may be experiencing difficulty breathing through your nose.   This may be a result of trauma or a person may be born with this condition.  To correct this problem, a septoplasty may be performed to straighten the septum.

Yet another anatomical cause of nasal airway obstruction is a nasal polyp or mass.  These masses are most often benign and are rarely malignant.  Dr. Moravec may recommend that you have surgery to remove these polyps.

Treating Sinus Disease

If you have pressure in the eyes, nose and cheek area, a headache, cough, fever, discolored drainage or nasal congestion, you may have a sinus infection.  This means that your sinuses and nasal passages are inflamed.  Sinusitis or sinus infection may be acute and have a sudden onset or, more commonly, be chronic or long term.  An ear, nose throat physician, like Dr. Moravec, treats sinus disease.

If your sinus infection does not respond to the medications or if the infections keep returning, Dr Moravec may recommend a careful diagnostic workup including a CT scan and office procedure called a rhinoscopy to identify the underlying cause of your sinusitis.  This information will provide a clinical history that may lead to Dr. Moravec's recommendation for sinus surgery.

Treating Skin Lesions

Most skin lesions are either benign, pre-cancerous, or cancerous.  Fortunately, the majority of lesions are benign.  If you have a lesion that changes in size, shape or color and is irritating and  bleeding, you should seek evaluation by a physician.  If you have a lesion or mole that is asymmetrical in shape, has an irregular border, does not have a uniform color throughout the lesion, or is greater than 1/2 of an inch in diameter (size of a pencil eraser), you should turn to a specialist like Dr. Moravec for an evaluation of the lesion.  More than likely, the specialist will recommend that a biopsy be performed. A biopsy is performed at our office with the use of local anesthesia.  All lesions removed, except skin tags, are sent to a pathologist for evaluation.

Inserting Ear Tubes

Most ear infections and fluid in the ears are treated and respond successfully to medications.  However, if the fluid persists, an ear, nose throat physician, like Dr. Moravec, will recommend that ear tubes be surgically placed in the patient's ears.  The long-time presence of fluid build-up in the ears can cause hearing problems or speech delays in children.  While some adults do experience this condition, it is predominantly common in children.  For adults, the tube may be inserted in our office, but for children, Dr. Moravec performs the surgery under general anesthesia in a hospital setting.