Middle Ear Implant for Humans
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Acta Oto-Laryngologica
- Vol. 99 (3-4) , 313-317
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00016488509108915
Abstract
In humans, a partially implantable middle ear implant (MEI) will first be applied, followed by a wholly implantable MEI, since with the former only an induction coil and a vibrator (to the stapes' head) are used. One of the various advantages of the partially implantable MEI vis-à-vis air conduction hearing aids is that the tone quality is of much higher fidelity, with less noise.Keywords
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