Dominik Riss, Christoph Arnoldner, Wolf-Dieter Baumgartner, Michaela Blineder, Stefan Flak, Anna Bachner, Wolfgang Gstoettner, Jafar-Sasan Hamzavi
OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: The aim of this study was to evaluate functional hearing gain, speech understanding, and preoperative bone-conduction thresholds with the bone-conduction implant Bonebridge. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective study at a tertiary referral center. METHODS: Twenty-four consecutive Bonebridge patients were identified. Nine patients suffered from combined hearing loss (HL), 12 from atresia of the external auditory canal and three from single-sided deafness...
December 2014: Laryngoscope