Bone-anchored hearing aids help children with deafness in one ear

A new study suggests that bone-anchored hearing aids help youth with single-sided deafness.

Lisa Christensen, Au.D., of Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, and colleagues analyzed the charts of 23 children and teens (age range 6 to 19, average age 12.6) with single-sided deafness who received bone-anchored hearing aids over a three-year period. Each surgery was performed in two stages with at least six months in between and patients were fitted with one of two types of bone-anchored hearing aid processors two weeks after the second stage. Hearing tests were conducted and each patient and a parent or guardian were asked to complete a questionnaire about listening difficulties before and after the fitting.

Scores on both hearing tests and questionnaires improved significantly following surgery.

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