Cisneros LJC, Vázquez VMC, Luna RFA, Mena AJCA

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

For over 35 years, bone anchored hearing aids have proved useful for the treatment of conductive or mixed unilateral or bilateral hearing loss, as well as for sensorineural unilateral hearing loss. During the last years important improvements have been done in this type of implants and one which presents some of the best features is the BAHA Attract by Cochlear, which has the advantage of not requiring an external percutaneous abutment, instead it gets coupled by magnetism. In this article we report the case of a 40-year old female with bilateral otosclerosis, who had important problems with stapes surgery and didn’t gain hearing improvement after stapedectomy, but did improve hearing with the use of one of this bone anchored device.

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