What is Otolaryngologist ?
Otolaryngology is the branch of Medicine that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of ear, nose, throat, and head & neck disorders. The full name of the specialty is Otolaryngology-Head and Neck surgery. Practitioners are called Otolaryngologists-Head and Neck surgeons, or sometimes Otorhinolaryngologists (ORL).
Pronounced oh/toe/lair/in/goll/oh/jee, Otolaryngology is actually abbreviated from an even longer name: Otorhinolaryngology. The latter derives from three Greek base words: oto - ear, rhino - nose, and larynx - throat.
In the past 50 years, Otolaryngology has expanded from "ears, noses and throats" to a regional specialty of the head and neck. Our physicians now sub specialize in more than a dozen areas including Otology, Neurotology (the study of the nerves within the ear), Plastic surgery of the face and neck, nasal and sinus disorders, voice and swallowing, audiology, and upper airway obstruction

What do Otolaryngologist - Head and Neck Surgeons - Do?
In addition to providing medical care in the office, Otolaryngologist – Head and Neck Surgeons are also experts in many types of surgery. These include a great variety of surgical procedures in the daily treatment of the ear, nose, skull base, sinuses, pharynx, larynx, oral cavity, neck, thyroid, salivary glands, bronchial tubes and esophagus, as well as cosmetic surgery of the face and neck.
Those specially trained in ear work are well equipped to restore hearing through microsurgical procedures.
They may perform Stapedectomy operations (on the smallest bone in the body) or other operations used to correct deafness such as surgically inserting a cochlear implant (a small electrode placed within the inner ear to help the severely hard of hearing).