How much do you know about bone anchored hearing aids?

Bone anchor hearing and how much do you know?

Bone anchor hearing aidThe indications for surgery are as follows:

1.Some chronic middle ear disorders. For example, long-term pus, other methods to improve chronic middle ear disease with poor hearing, the use of air-guided hearing aids will block the ear canal; or middle ear surgery, poor hearing, but the operating cavity is not suitable for patients with air-guided hearing aids.

2.External ear canal malformation for various reasons, such as congenital microtia. The advantage is that it does not affect the patient’s ear canal hearing reconstruction surgery, such as the use of bone-anchored hearing aids in childhood, when the growth of the humerus is completed, and then according to the situation, ear canal and hearing reconstruction surgery.

3.Unilateral deafness for some reasons, such as unilateral acoustic neuroma surgery, severe unilateral otosclerosis, etc. The better the inner ear function, the better the effect of using the bone anchor.

Different causes, different surgical methods, different materials, so it is decided according to the condition. It is not the patient who says that I want to put a bone conduction hearing aid. I will give you one, I don’t know which one you want to do. Which doctor is recommending to you.

Bone anchor hearing aid(Flood)It is an implantable bone conduction hearing system for conductive or mixed hearing impairments, as well as unilateral deafness. While traditional air conduction and bone conduction hearing aids are used by many people to achieve satisfactory results, they are not always effective.

Bone anchor hearing aid(Flood)Take the approach called direct bone conduction. This approach is different in many respects from traditional air conduction and bone conduction hearing aids. A tiny titanium implant is fixed in the bone behind the ear, which causes bone fusion with the bones of the human body. (Osseointegrate)effect. Simply put, the implant forms a whole body with the bone, which is the same as the implant.

Adult bone fusion(Osseointegration)It takes about three months and the child needs six months. Once the bone fusion is formed, a bridge base can be attached to the titanium implant and the speech processor can be clamped on it. When the speech processor detects the sound, it transmits the sound directly through the bone to the inner ear. This process bypasses the outer and middle ears. This surgery itself is considered a minor operation.

Bone anchor hearing aidFlood)For mixed and conductive deafness

Bone anchor hearing and there are no parts inside the ear, so the ear canal is still unobstructed. This is a great advantage for people with chronic ear infections or who do not like to place any device in the ear canal. Unlike hearing aids, bone anchor hearing aids do not rely on amplified sounds to improve hearing. As a result, patients with mixed and conductive hearing impairments get better hearing improvement than using hearing aids. By bypassing the ears(Outer and middle ear)The damaged part so you can hear the sound clearly.

Bone anchor hearing aid(Flood)For one-sided deafness(SSDTM)

A bone anchor hearing aid for a patient with unilateral deafness is placed on the side of the deaf. After the bone anchor hearing aid receives the sound, the sound is transmitted through the bone guide to the working cochlea. As a result, the patient has a hearing on the side of the ear.

Bone anchor hearing aid offers unique benefits for people with unilateral deafness. They can hear the sound from both sides, but they can only hear one side.