 Currently there are few treatments that are satisfactory for patients. Common surgical therapies include injections of various substances into the Eustachian tube opening including paraffin, Teflon,or gelfoam. Unfortunately, these methods are either temporary or have lead to serious complications including cerebral thrombosis and death due to inadvertent injection into the carotid artery. Other treatments have focused on cauterizing the Eustachian tube opening but these have been either unsatisfactory or caused damage to the trigeminal nerve. Myringotomy and insertion of a ventilation tube has helped some patients but others have found that this increased the patients discomfort.3-4 