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P U Carlsson

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PubMed1997

The bone-anchored hearing aid: reference quantities and functional gain.

One of the most important parameters of a hearing aid is its gain characteristics. Under ideal circumstances, the gain and the functional gain (FG) are the same for an air conduction device. This is not the case, however, with bone conduction devices, e.g., the bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA). In this article, the relation between the gain and the FG is derived for bone conduction devices including the BAHA. Reference quantities used when measuring bone conduction devices also are presented.

Auditory Threshold↗
PubMed1994

The bone-anchored hearing aid: principal design and audiometric results.

The principle of the bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA) is simple: sound vibrations are directly transmitted to the skull bone via a skin-penetrating titanium implant, and then are further transmitted to the cochlea, bypassing the middle ear. The present paper summarized the audiometric results from 122 patients with an average follow-up time of 5.6 years. When herein-suggested indications for treatment with the bone-anchored sound processor HC 300 are followed, the success rate is very high. The improved quality of life reported by the patients is a combination of improved quality of sound (warble tone threshold, speech reception threshold, and discrimination in noise), improved comfort, and relief from middle ear and ear canal disease occasioned by conventional hearing aids.

Audiometry↗