Because your ear health, hearing, and balance impact so many aspects of your life and the life of the ones around you, we at Texas Ear Clinic ensure that you have the greatest opportunity to overcome your condition and enjoy life without obstacles. We make certain that you have all the information and support that you need, and provide you with optimized, comprehensive and compassionate care. Following a thorough evaluation and state of the art testing, we offer the best available medical and surgical treatments or technology for your ear problems.
Welcome to Texas Ear Clinic! We have been in Fort Worth, Texas since 2008, and conveniently service Fort Worth, Dallas and the DFW metroplex including Arlington, Southlake, Grapevine, Keller, Alliance, Weatherford, and surrounding areas, home to around 7 million people. Our subspecialty trained dedicated team of providers and audiologists understand the life-altering effects of ear diseases, and are passionate about meeting our patients and restoring hearing and balance, as well as treating other diseases of the ear, facial weakness and skull base tumors. Our clinic offers state-of-the-art audiological and vestibular (balance) diagnostic evaluations, and facial nerve electrophysiological testing.
WHAT IS A NEUROTOLOGIST?
Neurotologists are otolaryngologists- head and neck surgeons that have undergone additional training and are experts in complex surgeries of the ear and temporal bone. Some of the most common procedures that we perform include the restoration of hearing with cochlear implants both in adults and children, ossicular chain reconstruction and tympanoplasty. Dr. Cristobal also routinely performs surgeries for chronic ear infections, difficult perforations of the eardrum and for newly diagnosed or recurrent cholesteatoma using microscopic and endoscopic techniques in order to minimize recovery time and to maximize the chances of success.
As a neurotologist, Dr. Cristobal treats surgically complex tumors deep to the ear (along the lateral skull base), while focusing on preserving the anatomical integrity and function of vital adjacent nerves that provide sensation to the face and throat, movement to the vocal cords, tongue, eye, and shoulder, and of the blood vessels in the area. Dr. Cristobal is also trained on the treatment of these tumors with “focused” stereotactic three dimensional radiation (Gamma Knife and Cyberknife). The most common tumors treated in his practice include acoustic neuroma, a tumor of the nerve of balance that connects the ear to the brain, as well as “glomus” or paraganglioma tumors. Other unusual conditions treated include spinal fluid leaks into the ear and the repair of encephaloceles, a condition in which the brain sags into the ear through a defect in the bone.
