Total Ossiculoplasty: Advantages of Two-Point Stabilization Technique

Table 3

Mean PTA air-bone gaps (ABG) and hearing improvement for patients who had and did not have intraoperative audiometry (IOA) during their surgical procedure (Group A).

	ABG	PTA improvement
24 patients with IOA	14.4 dB	21.1 dB
26 patients without IOA	16.9 dB	10.6 dB
Mean difference	2.5 dB	10.5 dB*

*This difference was significant (𝑃=0.016).