In patients with mild to severe hearing loss, conventional hearing aids offer limited benefits and several problems with feedback and cosmesis. Middle ear implants are a feasible option for patients with moderate to severe hearing loss who are unable to achieve adequate benefit from or cannot tolerate hearing aids for various reasons. Here we present a case of middle ear implant surgery using V...

This study investigated the effects of hearing impairment and auditory vs. auditory-visual perception of lexical tone by native Thai hearing impaired listeners: Hearing Impaired with Hearing Aids (HI+HA), Hearing Impaired without Hearing Aids (HIHA), and Normal Hearing (NH). Adults’ discrimination of the 5 Thai tones was investigated in auditory-visual (AV), auditoryonly (AO), and visual-only (...

INTRODUCTION Patients with air-bone gaps who cannot be corrected successfully by tympanoplasty or with mixed hearing loss may be treated with bone conduction hearing aids. Their disadvantages are the obvious external fixation components or the biological and psychosocial problems of open implants. We have developed new partially implantable bone conduction hearing aid without a percutaneous abu...

Objectives: To our knowledge this study, conducted in 2007, was the first of its kind. The purpose was to compare a self-fitted personal sound amplification product (PSAP) with professionally-fitted hearing aids in terms of real-ear aided gain, audibility, and speech understanding in background noise. A second objective was to quantify subjects’ reactions to the PSAP used in this study. Design:...

Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA) has proven performance and advantages for patients with aural atresia or chronic ear drainage who cannot wear air-conduction hearing aids. The BAHA has both cosmetic and acoustic advantages over most conventional hearing aids and hence is becoming increasingly popular. Moreover, BAHA improves the quality of life and has also significantly reduces ear discharge. ...

It is routine for audiologists to fit nonlinear hearing aids by using one of several current prescriptive formulae. While such an approach might result in acceptable fittings for single-channel analog compression hearing aids, its direct application to fitting current multichannel compression hearing aids may result in less than an optimal fit. In this paper, the effects of filter bandwidth, nu...

OBJECTIVE To verify the receiver in the ear and receiver in the aid adaptations by measuring in situ the speech perception and users' level of satisfaction. METHODS The study was approved by the research ethics committee (Process: 027/2011). Twenty subjects older than 18 years with audiological diagnosis of mild and moderate bilateral descending sensorineural hearing loss were evaluated. The ...