Five-year experience with skin-penetrating bone-anchored implants in the temporal bone.
A method for stable integration of titanium-implants in bone tissue has been developed at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Screw shaped implants have been inserted in the temporal bone using a delicate surgical technique. After healing-in of the implants it is, in a later séance, possible to penetrate the skin to establish a reaction-free percutaneous passage. An up to 5-year clinical follow-up has shown the possibilities of this new method in the treatment of patients with e.g. certain hearing disorders or facial defects after tumour surgery.
D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006310:Hearing Aids; D006801:Humans; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D013701:Temporal Bone / Q000601:surgery*; D014025:Titanium
D014025:Titanium