Services Offered

Description

OPD Consultation

This is an avenue for initial advice and instructions for new patients, as well as for follow up consults for patients with previous ears, nose, or throat related problems.

Aural toilette

This procedure is the removal of retained or impacted cerumen, discharge, blood, or foreign bodies in the external ear canal

Foreign Body Removal

This is for patients who have foreign body obstruction or impalement on either the ears, nose, or throat and who may require further assessment and definitive removal of the foreign body in the affected region.

Video laryngoscopy

This is a diagnostic procedure performed to examine the larynx using a 70-degree rigid endoscope which may aid in managing patients with foreign body impaction, hoarseness and voice complaints

Video nasal endoscopy

This is a diagnostic procedure performed to examine the intranasal structures and the nasopharynx using a zero, 30-, and/or 70-degree rigid nasal endoscope which may aid in managing patients with rhinosinusitis, epistaxis or patients with nasal foreign bodies. 

Creation of palatal obturators

Palatal obturators are prostheses used by patients with defect on the hard palate (ie. cleft palate patients, patients who underwent total or subtotal maxillectomies) who needed to occlude their defects to facilitate feeding, help healing, and prevent other sequelae and complications related to hard palate defects.

Minor surgeries

Minor surgical procedures include excision of cysts and small masses, punch/core/wedge biopsy that can be managed accordingly at the minor operating room.

Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy

Fine needle aspiration biopsy offers one of the most accurate and most cost-effective method for evaluating masses in the head and neck. In this procedure, a sample is obtained from the mass with the use of a syringe.

Sleep Study/ Polysomnography

Polysomnography is used for the diagnosis of patients who are suspected to have obstructive sleep apnea or other sleep disorders.

Hearing Tests

This procedure is done to evaluate the hearing of a client via pure tone audiometry, speech audiometry and tympanometry

Intermaxillary-mandibular fixation (IMMF)

Intermaxillary Mandibular Fixation is used for temporary fragment stabilization of mandibular fracture before definitive treatment.

CONSULTANT STAFF

DESCRIPTION

Samantha S. Castañeda, MD, FPSO-HNS

·         Chair, Department of ORL-HNS, Rizal Medical Center

·         Member, Head & Neck Surgery Section

·         Chair, Head & Neck Reconstructive Surgery Consortium

·         Fellowship in Head and Neck Reconstructive Surgery

Rodante A. Roldan, MD, FPSO-HNS

·         Training Officer, Department of ORL-HNS

·         Section Head: Rhinopharyngology and Allergology

·         Head of Allied Services

·         PRAISE Committee Chair

·         PGS Co-chair

·         Vice-Chair, Philippine Academy of Rhinology

·         Fellowship in Rhinology, Allergy, Paranasal Sinus and Skullbase Surgery

Wilfredo E. De La Cruz, MD, FPSO-HNS

·         Member, Otology, Audiology and Neuro-Otology Section

·         Past-Chair, Department of ORL-HNS, Rizal Medical Center

·         Fellowship in Otology

Raul M. Castillo, MD, FPSO-HNS

·         Section Head: Laryngology, Bronchoesophagology, and Endoscopy

·         ORMAT Chair

·         Past-Chair, Department of ORL-HNS, Rizal Medical Center

·         Fellowship in Laryngology

Jose Jonathan C. Franco, MD, FPSO-HNS

·         Section Head: Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology

·         Past-Chair, Department of ORL-HNS, Rizal Medical Center

·         Fellowship in Head and Neck Surgery

Michael Alexius A. Sarte, MD, FPSO-HNS

·         Section Head: Sleep Medicine

·         Past-Chair, Department of ORL-HNS, Rizal Medical Center

·         Fellowship in Rhinology & Sleep Medicine

Jose Rico A. Antonio, MD, FPSO-HNS

·         Section Head: Maxillofacial Trauma, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

·         Fellowship in Facial Plastic Surgery

Daniel Jose C. Mendoza, MD, FPSO-HNS

·         Member, Head and Neck Surgery Section

·         Fellowship in Head and Neck Reconstructive Surgery

Milabelle B. Lingan, MD, FPSO-HNS

·         Member, Laryngology, Bronchoesophagology, and Endoscopy Section

·         Fellowship in Laryngology

Maria Margarita M. Flores-Taningco, MD, FPSO-HNS

·         Member, Maxillofacial Trauma, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Section

·         Fellowship in Craniomaxillofacial Surgery

Ruby P. Robles, MD, FPSO-HNS

·         Member, Head and Neck Surgery Section

·         Fellowship in Head & Neck Surgery and Robotics

Darryl Anne A. Del Mundo, MD, FPSO-HNS

·         Member, Laryngology, Bronchoesophagology, and Endoscopy Section

·         Fellowship in Laryngology

Anne Margaux V. Artates, MD, FPSO-HNS

·         Section Head: Otology, Audiology and Neuro-Otology

·         Fellowship in Otology - Neurotology

Giancarla Marie C. Ambrocio, MD, FPSO-HNS

·         Member, Rhinopharyngology and Allergology Section

·         Member, Philippine Academy of Rhinology

Gerard F. Lapiña, MD, DPBO-HNS

·         Member, Otology, Audiology and Neuro-Otology Section