title: The Bonebridge semi-implantable bone conduction hearing device: experience in an Asian patient.
abstract: For over three decades, bone conduction hearing aids have been changing the lives of patients with impaired hearing. The size, appearance and fitting discomfort of early generations of bone conduction hearing aids made them unpopular. The advent of bone-anchored hearing aids in the 1970s offered patients improved sound quality and fitting comfort, due to the application of osseointegration. However, the issue of post-operative peri-abutment pin tract wound infection persisted. The Bonebridge system incorporates the first active bone conduction device, and aims to resolve peri-abutment issues. Implantation of this system in an Asian patient is presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, and The Institute of Human Communicative Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: W S S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Tsang
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, and The Institute of Human Communicative Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: J K Y
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic imaging and Interventional Radiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: K S S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Bhatia
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, and The Institute of Human Communicative Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: T K C
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, and The Institute of Human Communicative Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: M C F
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Tong
mesh_terms: D044466:Asian People; D005260:Female; D006310:Hearing Aids; D006314:Hearing Loss, Conductive / Q000601:surgery*; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D019919:Prosthesis Implantation; D016896:Treatment Outcome