Total Ossiculoplasty: Advantages of Two-Point Stabilization Technique

Table 1

Mean pre- and postoperative air conduction (dBHL), bone conduction (dBHL), and word discrimination (%) results (Group A).

	250 Hz	500 Hz	1000 Hz	2000 Hz	3000 Hz	4000 Hz	8000 Hz	Discrim
Preoperative air	62.3	59.4	57.6	53.9	58.2	63.9	71.4	92.0
(S.D.)	(18.7)	(20.9)	(19.1)	(18.8)	(20.9)	(23.1)	(22.9)	(8.1)
Preoperative bone		23.9	22.1	30.2	30.4	31.6
(S.D.)		(14.5)	(14.8)	(15.1)	(16.4)	(18.5)
Postoperative air	45.6	43.2	39.2	36.6	47.5	55.4	66.4	91.7
(S.D.)	(22.4)	(23.3)	(22.4)	(21.0)	(23.1)	(25.0)	(25.9)	(16.3)
Postoperative bone		24.2	21.4	28.0	30.2	30.2
(S.D.)		(16.3)	(17.4)	(19.0)	(19.6)	(21.2)