title: Tympanoplasty: does dry or wet temporalis fascia graft matter?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the success rate of dry and wet temporalis fascia grafts in type I underlay tympanoplasty.
  
  
  METHODS
  A prospective, randomised study was conducted. One hundred adult patients (males and females) with chronic suppurative otitis media (mucosal type) were divided into 2 groups of 50 each: one group underwent dry graft tympanoplasty and the other underwent wet graft tympanoplasty. Fibroblast count was calculated in dry and wet grafts.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The dry graft and wet graft groups had overall surgical success rates of 82 and 90 per cent, respectively; this finding was not statistically significant. A statistically significant high fibroblast count was observed in wet grafts, but it did not correlate with surgical success.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A dry or wet temporalis fascia graft does not influence the outcome of tympanoplasty type I.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery,Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Hospitals,New Delhi,India.
authors.forename: G B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery,Employee's State Insurance Hospital,Rohini,New Delhi,India.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology,Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Hospitals,New Delhi,India.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Aggarwal
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery,Baba Saheb Ambedkar Medical College and Hospital,Rohini,New Delhi,India.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Garg
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery,Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Hospitals,New Delhi,India.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Arora
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery,Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Hospitals,New Delhi,India.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005205:Fascia / Q000637:transplantation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010035:Otitis Media, Suppurative / Q000601:surgery*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D019737:Transplants / Q000637:transplantation*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014433:Tympanoplasty / Q000379:methods*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Fibroblast; Temporalis Fascia; Tympanoplasty