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I M Blatt

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Julius Lempert.

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Training singing children during the phases of voice mutation.

Development of singing ability in children is well documented and frequently fraught with admonitions to postpone formal training until the age of 17 or 18 years for boys and 16 years for girls, when voice change is usually complete and the risk for damaging developing structures is minimal. The author contends that the interval of voice mutation, a time of rapid physical change, is precisely the period when the young singer should pursue human musical instrument training under tutelage of singing teachers knowledgeable and experienced in the training techniques described herein and with the guidance of an otorhinolaryngologist to evaluate and monitor fitness. Voice mutation is viewed as a natural process of maturation, which can be enhanced by a formal training program.

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Fenestration tympanoplasty: an adjunctive technique for hearing restoration.

Two-staged fenestration tympanoplasty is a form of total tympanoplasty type V that incorporates the mastoidotympanomastoidectomy (radical mastoidectomy) and revives the Lempert horizontal semicircular canal fenestration operation. It is valuable when the usual and customary single or two-staged tympanoplasty procedures fail to conserve or restore hearing in the operative management of otitic disease. Two-staged fenestration tympanoplasty is also indicated in audiometric failure tympanoplasties, in oval window surgery failures in the absence of supporting ossicles and in the presence of a fibrosed or sclerosed oval window, and in severe otitic oval window-round window-posterior tympanic recess-tympanic orifice eustachian tube infection, which can only be completely removed by the mastoidotympanectomy. Total tympanoplasty type V as described here has produced serviceable hearing for human conversation and the speech frequencies to the 15-dB to 25-dB levels, and a 20 dB average in 19 of 21 patients operated on for a 90% success rate.

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