Kenny Lin, M.D. | Source | Houston Methodist
Kenny Lin, M.D.
Dr. Kenny Lin is a board-certified otolaryngologist who specializes in disorders of the ear. He is passionate about treating hearing loss, chronic ear infections, dizziness, and tumors of the lateral skull base. He is an expert in rehabilitation of hearing loss and has published on outcomes after stapes surgery, cholesteatoma surgery, ossicular chain reconstruction, and cochlear implantation. His ongoing research interests include expanding the indications for cochlear implantation and new treatment paradigms of vestibular schwannomas.
Dr. Lin attended medical school at Washington University in St. Louis before residency at New York Presbyterian – Columbia & Cornell. He then completed a two-year fellowship in Otology and Neurotology at the Michigan Ear Institute.
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“It would be a textbook chapter to cover all of the [causes of SNHL], but the most common cause is presbycusis,” which is also known as age-related sensorineural hearing loss, says Kenneth Lin, M.D., an otologist with Houston Methodist Hospital.
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“Pain is usually worst during the descent of a flight, as cabin pressure is increasing and pushing the eardrum inward until the ears pop, allowing the pressure inside the middle ear to match the cabin pressure,” says Kenny Lin, M.D., an ENT specialist at Houston Methodist based in Houston, Texas.
