Korean J Otolaryngol-Head Neck Surg.  1997 Jun;40(6):815-818.

The Effect of Audiant Bone Conductor Implantation

• Park HG
• Ko KR
• Ban YS
• Lee KD
• Park CY
• Choi BN

Abstract

Audiant bone conductor(ABC) can be beneficial to patients with conductive hearing loss and sensorineural hearing loss. We have implanted ABC for 3 patients with bilateral conductive hearing loss and 2 patients with unilateral profound sensorineural hearing loss. And we evaluated the hearing gain in these patients except 1 case who did not return for follow up. The preoperative average air conduction threshoulds at the three speech frequencies 500, 1000 and 2000Hz, SRT, SD scores were 48.3dB HL, 47.5dB HL, 95% respectively and 19.1dB HL, 20dB HL, 95% postoperatively in 2 patients with bilateral conductive hearing loss. The preoperative average air conduction threshoulds at the three speech frequencies 500, 1000 and 2000Hz, SRT, SD scores were no response, no response, 0% respectively and 42.5dB HL, 51.3dB HL, 60% postoperatively in 2 patients with sensorineural hearing loss.

Keyword

Audiant bone conductor

MeSH Terms

Follow-Up Studies
Hearing
Hearing Loss, Conductive
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Humans