Postoperative Functional and Cosmetic Satisfaction among Subjects Undergoing Open Versus Endonasal Septorhinoplasty: Five Years' Experience from an Open-label Study at a Tertiary Care Center in Oman.

Objectives: We sought to compare functional and cosmetic satisfaction among male and female patients undergoing open and closed septorhinoplasty within sub-groups of indications for the surgery at a tertiary care hospital in Oman.

Methods: We conducted a prospective study in the ear, nose, and throat surgery department at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital from 2010 to 2015. All patients aged above 17 years, without dysmorphic pathologies, and due to be operated through open or endonasal septorhinoplasty based on the appropriate indications (functional or cosmetic or functional and cosmetic), were included in the study.

Limitations and drawbacks of the hospital-based universal neonatal hearing screening program: First report from the Arabian Peninsula and insights.

Objectives: To assess the efficacy of the current universal neonatal hearing screening program in a tertiary medical institution in Oman, identify its limitations and drawbacks, and explore their causative factors.

Methods: A retrospective review was carried out to analyse the hearing screening of 12,743 live babies born between January 2016 and December 2018. Screen coverage, drop outs, follow up rate, and age at completion of screening, diagnosis, and intervention were analysed.