By Dr. Sanjeev Mohanty | Cochlear Implant & Hearing Specialist | Dr. Mohanty's Speciality ENT Clinics, Chennai My patient Rajan — a retired schoolteacher in his late 60s — sat across from me last year and said something I will never forget. He told me he had stopped going to his grandchildren's school plays because he couldn't follow what was happening. He felt like he was watching life from behind a glass wall. Rajan has moderate-to-severe sensorineural hearing loss. After fitting him with a modern AI-powered hearing aid, he came back three weeks later with tears in his eyes. He had attended his granddaughter's Annual Day — and heard every word of her speech. This is why hearing technology matters. Not just clinically. Personally. The Quiet Crisis Nobody Talks About According to the World Health Organization , over 1.5 billion people globally live with some degree of hearing loss — and by 2050, that number is projected to rise to 2.5 billion. In India, e...
How AI is Revolutionizing ENT Care in 2026 — What Every Patient Must Know By Dr. Sanjeev Mohanty | ENT, Head & Neck Surgeon | Dr. Mohanty's Speciality ENT Clinics, Chennai Let me be honest with you. When I first started practicing ENT medicine over 25 years ago, diagnosing a patient with a middle ear infection meant looking through a handheld otoscope, relying on experience, and a lot of clinical intuition. Today, Artificial Intelligence is sitting right next to us in the consultation room — and it is changing everything. This isn't science fiction. It isn't a futuristic concept. It's happening right now, in 2026, in hospitals and clinics around the world — including right here in Chennai. And as someone who has spent decades treating patients with ear, nose, and throat conditions, I want to break this down in plain language for you. First — What Exactly is AI Doing in ENT Medicine? Artificial Intelligence, in the context of healthcare, is essentially a comput...