Medica Jadertina, Vol. 43 No. 3, 2013.
Professional paper
A view of the first BAHA system implant in Zadar General Hospital
Milan Rudić
; Zadar General Hospital, Department of Otolaryngology
Alexis Bozorg Grayeli
; Paris University 7-Diderot, AP-HP Beaujon, Clichy, Inserm
Marijan Kovačić
; Zadar General Hospital, Department of Otolaryngology
Abstract
Bone Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA) today presents a new and modern way of hearing rehabilitation and an alternative to the conventional hearing aids. Since its first manufacture in 1977 in Sweden (Entific Medical Systems, Goteborg), it has been widely used and up to now around 100,000 BAHA systems have been implanted worldwide. In the present case we report on a first BAHA system implantation at the ENT Department of Zadar General Hospital. The BAHA system implantation was performed in a patient with a long term history of chronic suppurative otitis that resulted in severe hearing loss. The procedure was done under local anesthesia as a single act. Upon proper osteointegration after eight weeks, the speech processor BP110 was added and activated. Three months following the activation of the speech processor, the patient is highly satisfied with the level of the achieved hearing rehabilitation. Presently, the BAHA system was a universally accepted procedure of hearing rehabilitation, and with the proper candidate selection and
meticulous surgical intervention, it gives significantly better hearing rehabilitation when compared to the conventional hearing device.
Keywords
hearing loss; osteointegration; hearing rehabilitation
Hrčak ID:
107247
URI
Publication date:
11.9.2013.
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