Binaural hearing in monaural conductive or mixed hearing loss fitted with unilateral Bonebridge

CONCLUSIONS: Our study shows that the use of a unilateral BCI in patients affected by monaural conductive or mixed hearing loss can improve speech perception under noise conditions due to the summation effect and to the decrease of the head shadow effect. However, since monaural BCIs might lead to discomfort under noise conditions in some subjects, a pre-operative assessment of the possible individual benefit of a monaural BCI should be carried out in patients affected by unilateral conductive or mixed hearing loss in order to investigate the possible additional effect of the fitting of hearing aids.PMID:38651553 | PMC:PMC11042553 | DOI:10.14639/0392-100X-N2752
Source: Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica - Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Source Type: research