If your ear hurts, feels blocked, or you've caught yourself asking people to repeat things more often, start here. Excell ENT Clinic treats the full spectrum of ear problems, wax buildup, infections, hearing loss, and everything between. Every ear gets a real look before anyone decides on treatment, not a guess based on how you describe it over the phone.
Ask most people and they'll say wax removal. That's part of it, but the fuller picture includes checking the eardrum, testing how you actually hear, and catching infections before they turn into something bigger.
Ears rarely scream for attention. A bit of discomfort, a muffled feeling, nothing that stops your day. So people sit on it, and what could've been a quick fix becomes an infection that's spread, or fluid pooling behind the eardrum. First visit, we look, otoscope or endoscope, straight into the canal, no guesswork.
Questions come before instruments. What's bothering you, how long, do you swim, do you live in your earphones. Wax pain and infection pain don't feel the same, and the history often tells us which one we're dealing with.
Then the exam, a small camera, a couple of minutes. If hearing seems affected, we test it the same visit.
From there it depends on what turns up. Wax means microsuction. An infection might mean drops or tablets. Fluid buildup occasionally needs a small procedure. Swimmer's ear is its own thing, water trapped in the canal until it turns infected, and the fix starts with clearing the canal before any drops go in.
Two tests do most of the work. Pure Tone Audiometry finds the quietest sound you can pick up at different pitches, so we know how much hearing's dropped and where. Tympanometry checks whether your eardrum is moving properly and whether fluid's sitting behind it, something audiometry alone can't tell us. Neither hurts, both take minutes, and both happen the same day.
Wax removal under a microscope, no water. A better option if you've had ear infections before.
Outer and middle ear infections both fall under this, treated with cleaning, drops, and medicine. Our swimmer's ear treatment clears the canal fully first, then starts the drops.
Pure Tone Audiometry and Tympanometry, done in house.
We help you find one that fits your life and your budget.
Mostly kids, mostly small objects that shouldn't be in an ear canal.
Home fixes tend to backfire. Cotton buds and candles push wax further in more often than they get it out, and can nick the canal without you noticing.
Treating the wrong thing is its own problem too, bacterial drops don't touch a fungal infection, they just waste a week while it worsens. Hearing loss caught early is far easier to manage. Left alone for years, it eats into how well you follow speech in noise, and in kids, it can slow language development.
Kids who keep getting infections. Adults who swim often or live in earphones. Anyone working somewhere loud all day. All reasons to get checked periodically.
Older adults whose hearing has quietly faded, often written off as age, deserve an actual test rather than a shrug. If you're dealing with pain, discharge, ringing, or that blocked feeling that won't lift, don't wait it out.
Most ear problems can hold for a day or two. A few can't. Sudden hearing loss in one ear, especially within hours, is one of them, since sooner treatment means better odds of recovery.
Add severe pain with high fever, swelling behind the ear, sudden facial weakness, bleeding after an injury, or dizziness with repeated vomiting. Call us, or if it's after hours, get to the nearest emergency department.
A consultation runs 500 to 1000 rupees. Microsuction is 1000 to 2500 rupees per ear. A basic hearing test lands between 500 and 1500 rupees. Hearing aids start around 15,000 rupees and climb with added features. You'll know the cost before we start, not after.
How fast things clear up depends on what's actually wrong.
Works fast, often the same visit, the blocked feeling gone before you leave.
Needs 2 to 3 days to ease and about a week to clear fully if the drops are finished properly.
Take 7 to 10 days, more if fluid's involved.
Are slower, your brain needs a few weeks to adjust, so we schedule follow ups in the first month to fine tune the fit.
Working under direct vision keeps things safer than home remedies. Microsuction is well tolerated, occasionally a brief dizzy spell from the suction sound that fades in seconds. Ear drops can sting a little for some. Tablets need finishing completely, even if you feel fine after two days. Real complications are rare when someone trained is doing the looking.
completed her MS at Goa Medical College, then a Fellowship in Otology and FESS at KKR ENT Hospital and Research Institute, Chennai. Otology and endoscopic procedures make up most of her practice now.
has been in ENT for over 11 years. Her surgical range covers FESS, tympanoplasty, and mastoidectomy, with publications in ENT journals along the way.
Degrees on a wall don't say much about a visit. What makes an ear clinic in Bangalore worth choosing is whether someone actually looks before they treat, and explains it in words that make sense, not shorthand rushed through in five minutes.
Training from AIIMS Jodhpur and Goa Medical College, fellowship experience in otology, doctors who handle both routine visits and complicated surgeries when genuinely needed. Ask us about registration or accreditation whenever you're here.
Cotton buds, candles, whatever's in the cabinet, they buy a bit of relief and not much else. Cotton buds especially tend to shove wax deeper rather than out.
Works differently. Someone looks inside first, then decides what to treat, usually the difference between a problem that actually resolves and one that keeps showing up every few months.
Ear pain past a day or two. Hearing that's changed, suddenly or slowly. Discharge, itching, ringing, that stubborn fullness. Book a visit for any of these. Kids tugging at an ear or not responding to sound like they used to, same advice.
Swim a lot and keep getting the same discomfort afterward? Get it checked once and it usually stops repeating every season.
Wax that's bothered you for weeks. An infection that won't quit. Hearing loss you've been putting off. Whatever it is, that's what we're here for, no rushed visits, just an honest look and a plan that fits.
Book a consultation with Dr. Rashmi Vijayakumar or Dr. Bhavitha Anand at Excell ENT Clinic whenever you're ready.