Dr. Junior DeFrietas is a qualified Otolaryngologist whose ear, nose, and throat (ENT) state-of-the-art offices in Denton and Flower Mound, Texas, are part of the DFW Sinus Select group and serve the surrounding areas. Dr. DeFrietas diagnoses and performs all the conditions of a qualified ENT specialist, including ear tube placement, allergy testing, tympanoplasty, head and neck surgery, and deviated septum. Dr. De Freitas is one of the first physicians to be specifically trained in performing minimally invasive balloon sinuplasty for chronic sinusitis and was the first physician to perform that surgery in Denton.
Dr. DeFrietas has 32 years in practice. A former chief resident at New York Eye and Ear infirmary, he won the prestigious teaching resident award there. He was also given recognition for outstanding work in the temporal bone, (the mastitis, or bone behind the ear) lab. Some of his areas of special interest areas are ear surgery, the abnormal skin growth of the middle ear called cholesteatoma, sinusitis, and sleep disorders.
Dr. DeFrietas has been affiliated with twenty hospitals, which currently include:
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth
Denton Regional Medical Center
North Texas Medical Center
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound
American Academy of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery (ABOTO)
Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 1984
Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York, NY 1989