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1Audiology Services, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. d.hayes@utoronto.ca
Abstract:
Recent advances in miniaturization have provided clinicians with hearing aids that can be comfortably inserted as far as the bony portion of the ear canal. It is possible to take advantage of these deeply inserted hearing aids in new ways. For example, the physical vibrations of microphone and receiver components may be used to improve hearing aid gain through bone conduction. Three cases are presented that will introduce this phenomenon for two transcranial CROS fittings and for one unilateral otosclerosis fitting. In each case, functional gain measurements under headphones were obtained with the hearing aid receivers acoustically plugged. Considerable gain was still present. Potential benefits, ramifications, and side effects are discussed.
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