[Personal experience with the use of auditory ossicle transplantation in tympanoplasty]

For improvement of the mechanism of transmission of sound we use in tympanoplasty transplants of ossicles obtained from subjects who died accidentally. For preservation we use a 0.5% formaldehyde solution. In 68 patients with chronic suppurative epytympanic inflammation of the middle ear tympanoplasty was performed with transplantation of the complex of auditory ossicles: articulated incus and stapes. Positive functional results were achieved in 59 patients. Transplantation of the ossicles thus may become the method of choice; it must be, however, further improved.