Professor Mario Zernotti, our guest author, shares insights gained from nearly four decades of experience helping children with conductive hearing loss due to microtia and congenital aural atresia, which occurs most commonly in Andes Mountains of South America.
A bone conduction implant or an active middle ear implant? This is a common question in clinical treatment of mixed hearing loss, and there is considerable overlap in the indications for these two systems. But there are clear differences in how these two systems function—and, in some cases, also audiological results.
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