Audiometric comparison between Bone Anchored Hearing Aid and Bone Conduction Implant
Conference poster, 2016

Patients suffering from conductive or mixed hearing losses can often be successfully rehabilitated using bone conduction devices (BCDs). Percutaneous BCDs are widely used today, but the trend is to develop transcutaneous solutions able to providing equally good rehabilitation and less complications. Here, the transcutaneous Bone Conduction Implant was compared with percutaneous BCDs under the hypothesis that they are equally effective. Tone and speech audiometry and questionnaires were utilized to assess the overall performance. The outcome confirmed the initial hypothesis.

Author

Cristina Rigato

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Signal Processing and Biomedical Engineering

Sabine Reinfeldt

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Signal Processing and Biomedical Engineering

Bo Håkansson

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Signal Processing and Biomedical Engineering

Karl-Johan Fredén Jansson

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Signal Processing and Biomedical Engineering

Måns Eeg-Olofsson

University of Gothenburg

AudiologyNOW!2016

Subject Categories

Other Medical Engineering

Medical Engineering

Areas of Advance

Life Science Engineering (2010-2018)

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Created

10/8/2017