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A Cotton Wick Improves Hearing in a Patient with Profound Hearing Loss

Author(s) -

Ryner Jose D. Carrillo,

Precious Eunice R. Grullo,

Maria Luz M. San Agustin

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

philippine journal of otolaryngology head and neck surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2094-1501

DOI - 10.32412/pjohns.v30i2.357

Subject(s) - medicine , hearing loss , audiology , middle ear , chronic suppurative otitis media , hearing aid , surgery

The tympanic membrane and the ossicular chain contribute roughly 28 dB in hearing gain. In chronic suppurative otitis media, loss of tympanic membrane and lysis of the ossicular chain are significant causes of hearing loss.1 Through the years, hearing impairment has been augmented using various devices such as ear trumpets, carbon hearing aids, vacuum tube and transistor hearing aids, bone anchored hearing aids and cochlear implants.2 This case report describes how a cotton wick was used to amplify sound.

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