Hi-tech Ear Cleanings in Japan
In Japan intense ear cleanings are common but they sound pretty shocking when described by the BBC's Christopher Hogg. Hogg sat in for one of the treatments where you watch the the therapist clean out the inside of your ear on a flat screen television.
As the therapist picks up the tool though you realise what you are watching is the image broadcast from the tiny camera she is holding.
The picture shows your ear getting closer and closer as she approaches, and then in seconds the tool is down the hole and inside.
Now I am sure I do not have to tell you that it is not a pretty sight in there.
Your ear canal is about 3cm long. The woman treating me was determined to remove as much as she could from inside.
As my masked therapist scraped away the detritus I got to watch the whole experience in all its wide-screen horror.
Hogg writes that ear cleaning has typically been a family activity in Japan -- at least until these new hi-tech ear treatments came along.
Posted on May 10, 2006
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