How Does A Bone Anchored Hearing Aid Work?

Posted on Fri, 7 Apr 2017

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Question : Patient going for surgery of Left bone ancohred hearing aid surgery kindly clarify whether this aid or implant is external aided or internal implant

Answered by Dr. Priyanka Aggarwal (20 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
BAHA

Detailed Answer:
Hi
Welcome to HealthcareMagic and thanks for putting up the query
In bone anchored hearing aid a prosthesis is surgically embedded into the skull with a small abutment exposed outside the skin. it will help to bypass the middle ear and sound will be conducted directly through skull bone. So a component of implant is external over the skin and a part of it is placed internally under the skin.
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