Stability, Survival, and Tolerability of an Auditory Osseointegrated Implant for Bone Conduction Hearing: Long-Term Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare implant stability, survival, and soft tissue reactions for a novel (test) and previous generation (control) percutaneous auditory osseointegrated implant for bone conduction hearing at long-term follow-up of 5 years.

Study design

Single follow-up visit of a previously completed multicenter, randomized, controlled trial.

Patients

Fifty-seven of the 77 participants of a completed randomized controlled trial on a new auditory osseointegrated implant underwent a single follow-up visit 5 years after implantation, which comprised implant stability measurements and collection of Holgers scores. Additionally, implant survival was recorded for all 77 patients from the original trial.

Results

The test implant showed significantly higher implant stabi

SUBMITTER: den Besten CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4982756 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature