Unfamiliar instrument - an 'ENT telescope'

This is a new one on me! I've seen one or two images or videos of it. Does anyone here know anything more?

The patient in the recent video I watched is a young boy. He opens his mouth and the doctor, wearing a head-lamp, presses down his tongue with a tongue depressor. So far so familiar! But in her other hand the doctor grasps a corded instrument with a 'trigger' and a long pencil-thickness metal 'barrel' which she inserts just an inch or two into the patient's mouth, then appears to tap with it. Then she immediately withdraws it.

The caption to the video calls it an 'ENT telescope' and I found other videos on the same page that appear to show that it can be used in conjunction with a TV screen. But that doesn't appear to happen here. So I'm slightly puzzled!

Hmm. The doctor isn't using it as a light (as I say, she's wearing a lamp on her forehead) nor, as far as I can tell, as a dental-probe, or similar.

The video I mentioned is a very short one, about 10 seconds. The curious can view it here:

https://depositphotos.com/205569020/stock-video-doctor-examine-throat-of-little.html

Any help appreciated.

- Ken

I looks to me as if the instrument has a rubber tube and filter, which suggests to me a compressed air supply, thus making the instrument able to deliver a shot of air on pressing the trigger, I have felt my dentist use something like that, but i never look, as i hate anything dental being done to me, but i must say, i find that a very arousing little clip for some reason,

Big thanks, cutmedfanuk, for the suggestion that the instrument in question is like a dentist's for delivering compressed air to a drilled tooth.

Actually, after studying some of the other videos on the same site,I now think that this 'ENT telescope' is being used here to deliver additional illumination as the doctor takes a peek at the patient's throat (there are some cavernous spaces back there!). In the video, see the doctor squint as she inserts the instrument! Also, in the first second of the video notice the light in the tip of the instrument shine past the patient and onto the back of the chair.

Yes, as someone who enjoys the mouth's erotic appeal, I can readily appreciate your additional comment, 'I must say, I find this a very arousing little clip ...' 😃

- Ken

I undergo this procedure at least twice a year as my ENT doctor examines my vocal cords for polyps. What this video shows is the doctor administering some lidocaine numbing spray to the back of the boy's throat. Once the throat is numbed, the doctor will insert a medical borescope into the boy's nasal passages and down into the throat to examine that area.

[...] What this video shows is the doctor administering some lidocaine numbing spray to the back of the boy's throat. Once the throat is numbed, the doctor will insert a medical borescope into the boy's nasal passages and down into the throat to examine that area.

Most interesting explanation, watertrain, so thank you! I think you're probably right! In my previous post (#3), I suggested that we see the light from the instrument shine on the back of the boy's chair in the first second of the video. But now I think that light may come from the doctor's head-lamp.

On the other hand, the caption of the clip does refer to an 'ENT telescope' ...

- Ken

Further to my last (i.e., post #5), I'm confused! The instrument does appear to be what the caption calls it, an 'ENT telescope'. Here's another clip showing an ENT telescope being used to examine a patient's ear. Note the illuminated tip.

https://www.istockphoto.com/au/video/doctor-examine-ear-of-patient-with-ent-telescope-gm975660970-265371805

Nonetheless, the doctor in the clip showing a young boy does seem to squirt something (a numbing agent like lidocaine?) onto the boy's throat, as watertrain suggests in post #4. Maybe the person who wrote the caption was also confused by a close similarity in appearance between two functionally different instruments. 😕

- Ken