Another look at Daggett's 1948 tympanoplasty.

It is important that we look critically at the results of conservative tympanoplasty in the presence of cholesteatoma. Lessons and observations taught many years ago by earlier otologists may give us valuable leads. A method of conservative surgery for chronic suppurative ear disease devised by Dr William Daggett in London in the late 1940s is described and evaluated in the light of current technical expertise.