Many people instinctively reach for a cotton swab, commonly known as an earbud, to clean their ears, believing it to be the best way to remove earwax. However, what seems like a harmless routine can ...

We are now looking at an actual eardrum. The eardrum's a thin piece of skin, and other tissues, stretched tight like a drum. When sound waves hit the eardrum, it vibrates and moves the ossicles ...

Most of the time our ear canals clean themselves; as we talk, chew and move our jaws the earwax and skin cells slowly move from the eardrum to the ear opening where it usually dries, and falls out.