Ear Candling
An audiologist's before-and-after camera examination found no difference in ear canal wax levels after ear candling. The dark residue visible inside a burned ear candle is candle wax, not earwax drawn from the ear. The proposed mechanism o…
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An audiologist's before-and-after camera examination found no difference in ear canal wax levels after ear candling. The dark residue visible inside a burned ear candle is candle wax, not earwax drawn from the ear. The proposed mechanism of ear candling is that heat warms the wax while the burning candle creates suction to pull wax into the candle.