title: Total implantation of the Implex TICA hearing amplifier implant for high frequency sensorineural hearing loss: the Tübingen University experience.
abstract: Hearing devices may be classified as sound-producing hearing aids, electrically stimulating devices, and vibratory hearing aids. Because patients may lose physiologic cochlear amplification, hearing devices for the treatment of sensorineural hearing loss are used as signal amplifiers. The totally implantable communication assistance (TICA) device is a European-approved totally implantable vibratory amplifier implant. It picks up the sound signal transcutaneously from the external auditory canal near the eardrum, amplifies the signal, and transduces the signal into microvibrations that are delivered to the ossicular chain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany.
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Zenner
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Leysieffer
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D000818:Animals; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D004432:Ear, Middle / Q000601:surgery*; D006309:Hearing; D006310:Hearing Aids; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D019919:Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods