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Children’s Airway & Swallowing Centre

Children's Airway & swallowing centre in bhubaneswar | Manipal Hospitals

Whether your child is born with the complex paediatric aerodigestive disorder or acquires it in the latter stage, we have experts working efficiently for more than two decades to treat any airway disorder. The various aerodigestive disorders include Congenital airway defects, Neonatal Nasal Obstruction, Airway problems due to trauma or intubation, Tonsil and Adenoid disease, Tongue-tie (Ankyloglossia), Speech and language disorders, Craniofacial anomalies including cleft lip, cleft palate, and VPI, Neonatal or paediatric swallowing disorders, Tracheostomy tube care.

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Why Manipal?

The children’s airway & swallowing center in bhubaneswar is the only one of its kind in India & the Southeast Asia region. As part of one of the top-ranked & largest hospitals in India, we have cared for children from all over the country and beyond.

Manipal Hospital is the largest multidisciplinary program of its kind with more than 50 referrals each year. The children’s airway & swallowing centre is solely devoted to the evaluation, treatment, and follow-up care of all neonates and infants with complex airway issues. Our centre serves as the only full-service regional evaluation centre for neonates and infants with congenital and acquired airway disorders associated with extreme prematurity, congenital birth defects, genetic syndromes, or other acquired vocal cord and tracheal problems.

We offer these infants seamless care with the most innovative diagnostics and therapeutic modalities. We also provide extensive counselling and education to parents or caregivers to help them in their child’s care.

Our team at Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road, Division of Paediatric Otolaryngology is trained to evaluate and diagnose patients based on past medical history, clinical exams, and diagnostic tests.

Our highly-experienced Paediatric Otolaryngologists (ENTs) can assess all the information and provide an individualized treatment plan for your child that may or may not include surgery.

Parents find that by coming to Manipal Hospital, their children receive the expert care they need in a child-friendly and family-centred environment.

We have a gamut of specialised doctors with state-of-the-art facilities that enable us to treat the child more effectively.

As empathy is the core value, we uphold compassion and care that creates a comfortable ambience for the child.

Children's Airway & swallowing centre in bhubaneswar

Facilities & Services

We diagnose & manage the conditions listed down:

Choanal Atresia

Complete tracheal rings

Foreign body aspiration

Glottic stenosis

Laryngeal atresia

Laryngeal trauma

Laryngeal web

Laryngomalacia

Laryngotracheal cleft

Pyriform aperture stenosis

Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis

Saccular cysts

Stridor (Noisy Breathing )

Sub glottic cysts

Subglottic hemangioma

Subglottic stenosis

Tracheal stenosis

Tracheomalacia

Vallecular cysts

Vocal cord cysts

Vocal cord nodule

Vocal cord paralysis

Vocal cord polyps

The airway team also specializes in the care of children with long term tracheostomies. These patients are followed timely to ensure appropriate tracheostomy care and help manage potential complications from having long term tracheostomies. The team also helps to plan the decannulation process and support those children whose conditions resolve over a period of time.