Ear, Nose & Throat

Stay healthy with the help of a board-certified ear, nose, and throat (ENT) specialist at UNC Lenoir Health Care near you in Kinston, North Carolina.

Complete ENT Care

Get otolaryngology care for ear, nose, and throat conditions affecting newborns, children, adults, and seniors, such as:

• Ear conditions
  • Chronic ear infections
  • Earwax
  • Hearing loss
• Head and neck cancers, including oral, throat, voice box, sinus, salivary gland, and thyroid
• Nose and sinus conditions
  • Allergies
  • Nasal polyps
  • Nosebleeds
  • Sinusitis
  • Snoring and sleep apnea
• Throat conditions
  • Difficulty swallowing
  • Laryngitis and vocal cord disorders
  • Sore throat
  • Tonsillitis and adenoid infections
• Salivary gland disorders
• Thyroid disorders, including nodules and hyperthyroidism

ENT Tests & Treatments

Choose UNC Lenoir for a broad range of tests, treatments, and minimally invasive and surgical procedures for your ear, nose, and throat symptoms and conditions, including:

• Adenoidectomy – Removes your adenoids to help breathing, ear, and sinus problems
• Allergy testing – Measures your reaction after skin exposure to allergens
• Allergy immunotherapy – Injects small doses of allergens under your skin to reduce your symptoms
• Balloon sinuplasty – Uses a small, flexible balloon catheter to open up your blocked sinus passages, allowing fluid drainage
• Ear tubes – Places tiny tubes in the eardrum to treat and prevent ear infections
• Eustachian tube balloon dilation – Uses a small, flexible balloon catheter to open your blocked Eustachian tube
• PROPEL ® sinus implant – Maintains the surgical opening created during sinus surgery and delivers a corticosteroid drug into your sinus as the implant dissolves
• Sleep study – Finds out what happens to your body when you sleep
• Throat culture – Evaluates germs in your throat
• Thyroid surgery – Removes all or part of your thyroid gland
• Tonsillectomy – Takes out your tonsils to prevent chronic tonsil infections and tonsillitis

What to Expect During Balloon Sinuplasty

Watch this video to learn more about balloon sinuplasty.

Outpatient ENT Procedures

Rest assured you’ll get expert care when you have your ear, nose, or throat procedure or surgery at UNC Lenoir. If you have day surgery—also known as outpatient surgery—you’ll return home the same day as your surgery.