Thank you for the correction. The surgical tubes are placed through the ear drum and lead to the eustacian tubes. The ear “drum” is, I believe, a thin membrane. The surgeon makes a slit in the membrane and inserts the surgical tube, so that the tube sits partially on the “outside” side of the membrane and mostly on the “inside” side of the membrane and enables fluid to drain into the eustacian tube. If the surgical tubes are expelled by the patient’s body after the surgery, or are surgically removed, the ear drum membrane may heal itself, i.e., close the slit, or may require surgical repair. At the risk of sounding presumptuous, I am not a physician or surgeon (and I don’t play one on TV). “Medical yenta” might be more accurate, and no one should follow the advice of any yenta without getting some independent, professional advice.
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