Abstract:OBJECTIVE: Both Otologists and patients mutually hope for an improvement in hearing and a functional benet from an ear surgery to correct
unilateral conductive hearing loss that has been reported as the closure of air-bone gap or reduction in air conduction thresholds. While these
provide a measure of technical success of the operation, they may not always translate into real life benet for the patient. This is because listening
is a binaural task and benet to the patient is determined by numerous factors, … Show more
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