Conversion of traditional osseointegrated bone-anchored hearing aids to the Baha attract in four pediatric patients.

Bone-anchored hearing aids are external devices attached to the skull via a titanium implant, and can be used for multiple types of hearing loss. Traditionally, osseointegrated implants have been coupled to the external processor with a percutaneous abutment, but more recently, a fully implanted, transcutaneous magnet-based system has become available. Skin reactions from the percutaneous portion are a common complication that can prevent use of the device during critical windows of language development and learning in children.

Weighting function-based mapping of descriptors to frequency-gain curves in listeners with hearing loss.

Objectives: The frequency-gain curve (FGC) is among the most important parameters to consider when fitting a hearing aid. In practice, a prescriptive FGC, derived from the audiogram, is initially applied. In the subsequent fine-tuning stage, the patient often communicates their concerns about the sound quality using descriptors (e.