Titanium prostheses versus stapes columella type 3 tympanoplasty: a comparative prospective study.

Introduction: Tympanoplasty is a surgical procedure designed to reconstruct the mechanisms of sound transmission in the middle ear.

Objective: Analyze, from an audiological point of view, patients with chronic otitis media undergoing type 3 tympanoplasty major columella with total ossicular replacement titanium prosthesis or with cartilage graft stapes columella.

Methods: This is a prospective analytical study, carried out at the otorhinolaryngology outpatient clinic in a tertiary care hospital, through the evaluation of 26 patients with chronic otitis media who underwent tympanoplasty using different materials for auditory rehabilitation such as titanium prostheses or cartilage autografts.