Ossicular Implants (Prosthesis) – from Infancy to Maturity

Comparison of Titanium vs. Polycel Total Ossicular Replacement Prosthesis

Introduction: Even though modern technology progresses so rapidly, annals of otology are replete with so many challenging article, which often compare various types of prosthesis. Since there has not been a prospective randomized clinical trial study which compares the hearing result of total ossicular replacement prosthesis made of Titanium with omega connector and Polycel in the literature, w...

PNA comes of age: from infancy to maturity.

The Belfast hip screener: from infancy to maturity.

Hip dislocation remains the most significant childhood orthopaedic abnormality despite the efforts of neonatal screening, first described in 1910. A new method of enhancing the performance of screening, the Belfast hip screener, is a non-invasive device developed to detect and interpret the vibrations ("clicks" and "clunks") which are emitted as the hips are physically tested. A progress report...

Surgical reconstruction of the ossicular chain with custom 3D printed ossicular prosthesis

Background: Conductive hearing loss due to ossicular abnormalities occurs from many causes, including trauma, infection, cholesteatoma, surgery and congenital anomalies. Surgical reconstruction of the ossicular chain is a wellestablished procedure for repair of ossicular defects, but is still plagued by high failure rates. Underlying disease and proper sizing of prostheses are two challenges th...

The use of total ossicular replacement prosthesis after radical tympanomastoidectomy.

BACKGROUND/AIM This paper presents our operative method for hearing recovery after the previous radical tympanomasto-idectomy, radical trepanation of the temporal bone (trepanatio radicalis ossis temporalis--TROT) in eight patients submitted to operations for giant cholesteatotoma. METHODS All the patients were admitted to our clinic after TROT. There were no signs of cholesteatoma or infecti...