title: Hearing rehabilitation with middle ear implants: an overview.
abstract: Implant otology has been a rapidly growing field with growing needs and development Over a few decades. The introduction of middle ear implants in the last 2 decades has seen good short-term success in rehabilitation of patients with deafness ranging from mild to severe degree. Middle ear implants are alternatives to conventional hearing aids and bone anchored hearing aids; together these aids and implants provide patients with a range of available options in augmentation of hearing. This article describes the types of middle ear implants and their mechanism of action, the surgical and audio-logical criteria for implantation, their limitations and reported outcomes.
authors.affiliation: ENT Department, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL, UK. acharpriya@gmail.com
authors.forename: Priya
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Achar
mesh_terms: D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology*; D006310:Hearing Aids; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D010036:Otolaryngology / Q000379:methods*