Tympanic Neurectomy Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of tympanic neurectomy in Gurgaon typically ranges from $620 to $6,000 USD (about ₹58,800 to ₹5.69 lakh), depending on the hospital, room category and type of procedure.

A typical estimate for tympanic neurectomy in Gurgaon is around $2,000 (about ₹1.90 lakh). What you pay depends mainly on your own case. If your operation is planned, done by keyhole or a standard method, and you go home after a short stay, your bill is likely to be closer to $620 (about ₹58,800). It is likely to be nearer $6,000 (about ₹5.69 lakh) if you need open or robotic surgery, your condition is more complex, you stay longer or you choose a private room.

When comparing Gurgaon packages for tympanic neurectomy, check whether each quote includes:

• Surgeon and anaesthetist fees
• Operating theatre or procedure room
• Packing, splints or dressings
• Hospital stay and room category
• Medicines and consumables
• Follow-up visits before you fly home

Tympanic neurectomy divides small nerves in the middle ear that supply the parotid salivary gland, to reduce saliva flow in people with persistent drooling.

Aetna's clinical policy bulletin on drooling describes tympanic neurectomy for drooling that continues after other treatments, including therapy, medicines and botulinum toxin injections into the salivary glands; it is sometimes used for Frey's syndrome, sweating on the cheek while eating.

Drooling care commonly involves a team, including therapists, especially for children with neurological conditions.

Aetna notes there are no large studies, though drooling operations as a group report success above 82%, and drawbacks of tympanic neurectomy include drooling returning and loss of taste.

This is an uncommon operation, so it is worth asking how commonly the surgeons perform it and what other options exist.

Flying home: cabin pressure changes can cause pain or trouble after ear, nose or sinus surgery, so the ENT surgeon checks you are fit to fly at the review appointment.

A Gurgaon quote for tympanic neurectomy is normally made up of these items:

• Pre-operative tests: blood work, imaging and an anaesthetic assessment.
• Theatre and anaesthesia charges: mostly set by time in the operating room.
• Consultant fees: which differ from one hospital to the next.
• Type of operation: open, keyhole or robotic where there is a choice.
• One ear or both: the extent of surgery.
• Combined operations: including gland surgery.
• Anaesthesia: normally general.
• Follow-up: to review saliva control.

Ask the Gurgaon hospital whether the quote includes the anaesthetist, the hearing or pathology tests and the post-operative clinic appointments.

ENT surgery in Gurgaon is carried out in multi-speciality hospitals with endoscopes and operating microscopes, and head and neck cases can involve reconstructive and cancer teams.

NABH, the hospital accreditation board of the Quality Council of India whose standards carry ISQua accreditation, sets the national benchmark for hospitals, and its online directory shows whether a Gurgaon hospital's accreditation is still current.

Gurgaon is part of Delhi NCR, where India's first hospital to gain Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation did so in 2005, and JCI publishes a searchable list of the organisations it currently accredits.

Gurgaon sits on the south-western edge of Delhi, a short road transfer from Indira Gandhi International Airport, which is the usual arrival point for international patients.