Reliability of Postsurgical Soft Tissue Reaction Grading Scales for Bone-anchored Hearing Implants

Aren Bezdjian1,2,3,4, Nabil Nathoo-Khedri3, Ruben M Strijbos5

  • 1Department of Experimental Surgery.

Summary

The Holgers, IPS, and Tullamore scales show moderate to good reliability for assessing skin reactions after bone-anchored hearing implant surgery. However, more research is needed to establish one scale as a standard for these implantable hearing devices.

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