".....it appears that grommets rarely work,..."
Nonsense. They work very well for most people.
and have a large risk of permanent hearing damage as they involve making a hole in the eardrum...."
More nonsense. Unless you get the local plumber to put 'em in....
Note that I prefaced my statement with “according to what I’ve read on the ‘web” – I hope I made it clear that I wasn’t stating that grommets cause damage as a fact.
To be honest, I’d love to give grommets a try. Why is it that they get a bad reputation, and the vast majority of reports I find through newsgroups tend to be negative? Is this purely Sod’s Law, in that the people who’ve had them done successfully don’t contribute to newsgroups, so you only get reports from people who’ve been misdiagnosed / are in a minority?
Thanks for the link, Gingernut. Not that I’m under 12, but I’d *like to think* that NICE wouldn’t suggest treatment that endangers hearing.