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This is probably too opinionated for the actual article (despite those links, perhaps); The "hot air" theory seems like it would only work if air was able to be drawn out from the ear, requiring an unimpeded path through the head for air to come in by.

That path is called the Eustachian tube, and connects with the sinus [1]. The real question is whether or not ear candles create enough suction to do what they claim (and if they did, whether or not that would be good for the ears). I don't think any knowledgable person would doubt that sufficient suction would draw out wax from the ears. Of course technically nothing is being sucked or pulled, it's meerly a lack of pressure pushing in. And the human body has plenty of pressure pushing out that a lot more than ear wax would pop out if the normal atmospheric pressure were completely removed. --Blackcats 08:59, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The comic imagery associated with that should be clear enough. Zake 04:36, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

There's absolutetly nothing that supports the rubbish that is ear candling. If it makes you feel better, it's probably the heat. Ever stick your ear on a heating pad, especially if you have an ear infection? Feels a lot better. It simply does not work. As for "hot air", you'd probably already have a lot of it in your head if you actually think ear candling is a viable way to get gunk out of your ear (well, besides being simply misinformed by some fast-talking huckster). - Lord Kenneth 04:51, Jan 17, 2004 (UTC)

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I removed a couple of external links to an ear-candling supply store. Wikipedia is not a link farm, and connections to retail establishments are frowned on. - DavidWBrooks 13:29, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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 I removed a couple of external links to an ear-candling supply store. Wikipedia is not a link farm, and connections to retail establishments are frowned on. - [[User:DavidWBrooks|DavidWBrooks]] 13:29, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
-== My anecdotal experience ==
-I remember when I was younger I had what I thought was water in my ear and it wouldnt come out, it made hearing in that ear difficult and it was just plain bothering me. I told my grandmother about it and she I guess she did this to me and it went away. Albeit she didnt actually use a candle much less some expensive candle specifically for this, she just got a regular lined sheet of paper coned it up and stuck it in my ear while I was laying down and burned the edge of it.