Mr Alex Bennett

After I qualified from Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals, London I had extensive Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) training in London and East Anglia, including an Otology Fellowship in Cambridge (2008) and a Balance Fellowship in St Louis (2018). I was appointed an ENT consultant in Edinburgh in 2010.

I was responsible for setting up NHS Lothian's Specialist Multidisciplinary Balance Service and this experience in vertigo also benefits my private patients. I am privileged to receive tertiary referrals for complex ear surgery from surgeons throughout Scotland and perform approximately 100 complex ear cases per year. I am the only surgeon in the region performing stapedectomy and middle ear implants. We pioneered combining Hearing Implant Surgery with ear reconstruction in the UK within the Scottish National Service and I was the first surgeon in the UK to perform a BoneBridge Hearing Implant in 2012 which was featured in a BBC Scotland documentary. I teach on the Combined Universities Otology Course and British Society of Otology Balance course to teach ear surgery and balance medicine to other doctors from around the world. Surgical procedures undertaken include: intratympanic therapy, hearing implants, ossiculoplasty, stapedectomy, mastoid surgery, myringoplasty, grommet insertion, septoplasty, functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS), micro-laryngoscopy, oesophagoscopy, adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy.