A minimally invasive technique for the implantation of bone-anchored hearing devices.

Objective: To describe and evaluate a novel technique for the implantation of bone conduction hearing devices as compared with a common, conventional technique.

Study Design: Case series with chart review.

Setting: Tertiary referral otology and neurotology practice.

Otoprotective effects of dexamethasone in the management of pneumococcal meningitis: an animal study.

Objective: To determine whether treating pneumococcal meningitis with a combined antibiotic and steroid regime will prevent cochlear damage, a common pneumococcal meningitis side effect.

Study Design: Prospective animal study.

Methods: Gerbils were randomly assigned to three experimental groups.

Dysgeusia and cholesteatoma.

Objective: To describe an individual with cholesteatoma whose sole presenting symptom was dysgeusia.

Study Design: Case report.

Method: A retrospective review of an individual presenting with dysgeusia without any hearing loss, otorrhea, or imbalance who was found to have chronic otitis media with cholesteatoma.

Hearing aids: a review of what's new.

Objective: To review the recent innovations in hearing aid technology.

Study Design: Review of the literature.

Setting: Private tertiary referral otology/neurotology practice.

Should ossicular reconstruction be staged following tympanomastoidectomy.

Objectives: To determine whether ossicular reconstruction (OCR) performed concurrent with tympanomastoidectomy for cholesteatoma results in significantly different hearing results when compared to OCR performed in a separate, staged procedure.

Study Design: Retrospective.

Materials And Methods: Study subjects were patients undergoing OCR within a 2-year period.

Titanium mesh for functional reconstruction of the mastoid cortex after mastoidectomy.

Objective: To describe a rapid and effective means of reconstructing the mastoid cortex after mastoidectomy for chronic otitis media with and without cholesteatoma.

Study Design: Retrospective.

Setting: Tertiary referral otology clinic.

Trends in the diagnosis and the management of Meniere's disease: results of a survey.

Objective: To determine the practices of the American Neurotology Society (ANS) membership in the evaluation and treatment of the Meniere's patient.

Study Design: Prospective.

Intervention: Questionnaire.