Case Report

Original Solution for Middle Ear Implant and Anesthetic/Surgical Management in a Child with Severe Craniofacial Dysmorphism

Table 1

Audiological evaluation before and after surgery.

Speech perception testPreoperative Postoperative (with VSB) after one year

(1) Vocal recognition30%100%
(2) Word recognition0%70%
(3) Sentence recognition0%76%

Pure-tone audiometric test in free fieldWithout hearing aidWith traditional bone-conduction hearing aidWith VSB

70 dB HL35 dB HL25 dB HL