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<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Hearing during the first 6 months of life is also considered as crucial for normal acquisition of language. Hence, infants with permanent congenital and early hearing loss identified by 6 months of age and given appropriate and timely support are reported to achieve better language outcomes than those identified later than 6 months of age.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> The study group constituted of 200 ears of 100 neonates (0-28 days) that were randomly selected. The neonates were taken from immunization clinic, newborn nursery, neonatal ward and intensive care unit of our hospital and also those referred from other hospitals.  </p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> There were 4 neonates (8 ears) with high risk factors of hyperbilirubinemia, prematurity and preterm born. These were subjected to Transient Evoked Oto-acoustic Emission (TEOAE) as well as BERA. Out of the 8 ears, 3 ears showed TEOAE fail, one had bilateral and the other had unilateral TEOAE fail. 5 ears passed TEOAE test.</p><p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> TEOAE cannot completely replace BERA as screening modality for hearing impairment in neonates, however can complement it. </p>

Alar retraction is one of the common problems seen in both primary and secondary rhinoplasty. Multiple techniques of varying complexity have been described to treat this common and challenging problem. (1,4) The presently used techniques are associated with scar and potential formation of crust. Thus, we attempted to overcome these shortcomings by using new grafting techniques to correct alar retraction. In this article, we describe the simplest way of correcting alar retraction by using an alar projection graft.

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<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> <span lang="EN-IN">Identification of newborn hearing loss is addressed in the healthy people 2010 goals, stated as “increasing the proportions of newborn who are screened for hearing loss by age one month, have audiologic evaluation by age 3 months and are enrolled in appropriate intervention services by age 6 months. </span></p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> <span lang="EN-IN">The study was conducted between October 2008 to October 2009 at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. The study group constituted of 200 ears of 100 neonates (0-28 days) that were randomly selected. The neonates were taken from immunization clinic, newborn nursery, neonatal ward and intensive care unit of our hospital and also those referred from other hospitals.  </span></p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> <span lang="EN-IN">Out of 100 the neonates aged between 1-4 days were 67, 5-9 days were 24 and between 10-28 days were 9. </span></p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> <span lang="EN-IN">There were no neonates with low Apgar score, no family history of hearing loss, no exposure to ototoxic drugs and no neonate on mechanical ventilator.</span></p>