<p><strong>Background: </strong>Literature and other available research states lots of comparison between endoscopic and conventional septoplasty. The study helps conclude the merits and demerits of both techniques and compares the superiority of one method over the other on various aspects from surgeon’s and patient’s point of view. The objective of the study was to compare outcomes of conventional and endoscopic septoplasty.<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Study included 48 patients having symptomatic deviated nasal septum willing for surgery randomly divided into two groups of 24 each who underwent endoscopic septoplasty and conventional septoplasty. All the patients selected for study, were assessed for subjective and objective evaluation pre-operatively and post-operatively on 7^th day, 1 month and 3 months. The study was conducted at Surat Municipal Institute of Medical Education and Research (SMIMER), Surat.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There are technical advantages of using endoscope during septoplasty as it is definitely superior from surgeon’s point of view but there is no significant difference in terms of functional outcome, complications and post-operative hospital stay.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>There are technical advantages of using endoscope being superior in terms of illumination, preciseness and surgery, visualization of deeper parts of nasal cavity and resection of posterior deviation and spur especially in isolated septal spur and in achieving hemostasis. The study helps us conclude that endoscopic septoplasty has merits over conventional septoplasty on various aspects.</p>

<p><strong>Background:</strong> Researches suggest middle ear surgery might improve tinnitus after tympanoplasty. Purpose of this study was to investigate association between pre-operative air-bone gap (ABG) and tinnitus-outcome after tympanoplasty type I.</p><p><strong>Methods:</strong> 100 patients with tinnitus having more than 6 months of symptoms of chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) that were refractory to medical treatment were included in study. All patients were evaluated through otoendoscopy, pure-tone audiometry, questionnaire-based survey using the visual analogue scale (VAS) and tinnitus handicap inventory (THI) for tinnitus symptoms before and 4 months after tympanoplasty. Influence of preoperative bone conduction (BC), preoperative air-bone-gap and postoperative air-bone-gap on tinnitus outcome post-operatively was calculated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Patients were divided into two groups based on preoperative BC of &lt;25 dB or &gt;25 dB. Postoperative improvement of tinnitus in both groups showed statistical significance. Patients whose preoperative air-bone-gap was &lt;15 dB showed no improvement in postoperative tinnitus using VAS (p=0.887) and THI (p=0.801). Patients whose preoperative air-bone-gap was &gt;15 dB showed significant improvement in postoperative tinnitus using VAS (p&lt;0.01) and THI (p=0.015). Postoperative change in tinnitus showed significance compared with preoperative tinnitus using VAS (p=0.006). Correlation between reduction in VAS score and air-bone-gap (p=0.201) or between reduction in THI score and air-bone-gap (p=0.270) was not significant.</p><p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Preoperative ABG can be a predictor of tinnitus outcome after tympanoplasty in CSOM with tinnitus.</p><p> </p>