The totally implantable middle ear device ‘Esteem’ for rehabilitation of severe sensorineural hearing loss

Abstract

In the whole sample, mean hearing threshold levels improved from 70 to 48 dB; in the MHL group the mean hearing threshold level improved from 64 to 42 dB; in the SHL group the mean hearing threshold level improved from 82 to 58 dB. GBI and COSI scores were only slightly better in the MHL group than in the SHL group.