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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t go to urgent care for this, they won’t have the equipment. You want an old-school ENT with the irrigation machine. [/quote]

Of course they have equipment for this at Urgent Care. Even the CVS Minute Clinic does. The "equipment" that is usually involved is just an otoscope -- which every doctor used to look in ears. Not a health clinic in the world that doesn't have one. And the other "equipment" is, as others have mentioned, just a big bulb syringe that shoots water into the ear at a high enough velocity to flush the wax out of the ear. Hopefully. Usually it does. If that doesn't get the wax out then yes, you have to go to the ENT. But ENT does not need to be the first stop for most people with an ear wax build up problem.

-- someone with an ear wax problem who has had her ear flushed at both a Minute Clinic and an Urgent Care, to much great success. [/quote]

Most doctors are perfectly happy to use curettes/hooks if the irrigation doesn't work. Some prefer it since it ends up being faster. There shouldn't be a need to go to an ENT in all but the most extreme cases.[/quote]

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