Fully implantable hearing aids in patients with congenital auricular atresia

• Published in: The Laryngoscope Vol. 117; no. 2; p. 336
• Main Authors: Siegert, Ralf, Mattheis, Stefan, Kasic, James
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.02.2007
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Audiometry, Pure-Tone; Auditory Threshold - physiology; Bone Conduction - physiology; Ear Canal - surgery; Ear, Middle - abnormalities; Electromagnetic Phenomena - instrumentation; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Hearing - physiology; Hearing Aids; Hearing Loss, Conductive - surgery; Humans; Male; Prospective Studies; Prosthesis Design; Prosthesis Implantation - instrumentation; Prosthesis Implantation - methods; Speech Perception - physiology; Transducers; Treatment Outcome; Tympanic Membrane - surgery

Patients with congenital auricular atresia suffer from a conductive hearing loss (HL) with an air-bone gap of 50 to 60 dB. Conventional bone conducting or bone anchored hearing aids are treatment options with several disadvantages and a biophysical limitation of almost no sound attenuation in the sk...