“…Concurrent articles on cartilage tympanoplasty frequently report hearing thresholds or averages using the highest frequency of 2000 Hz, 3,5,13,29 3000 Hz 1 , 8,28,[30][31][32] or 4000 Hz. 2,4,6,12,14,15,[33][34][35][36] Were we to narrow our reporting to these same levels or simply present a pure tone average, the high frequency loss presented here would have been missed, since statistical significance was only noted at 4000, 6000 and 8000 Hz.…”