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An Improved Mechanical Testing Method to Assess Bone-implant Anchorage
Published on: February 10, 2014
Bony overgrowth onto fixture component of a bone-anchored hearing aid
1Department of ENT, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK. drsan911@hotmail.com
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology
|September 30, 2004
Abstract:
An eight-year-old boy with Treacher Collins syndrome was fitted with a bone-anchored hearing aid. The audiometric result was excellent. Two years later, the abutment began to loosen and could not be tightened. It was thought that a new fixture would be required, with loss of use of the aid for three months. At surgery, bone was found to be growing over the hexagonal joint between fixture and abutment. A simple and rapid solution to this problem is described.
