Auditory Rehabilitation

Auditory Rehabilitation Options

Traditional Hearing Aid Amplification

Use of hearing aids can start as soon as hearing loss is identified, ideally before the age of three months. Options for amplification depend on the kind and severity of the patient's hearing loss as well as their ear structure. Conventional hearing aid is the first option of hearing aids that might be suitable for kids with TCS. Children with grade 1 or 2 microtia and a patent ear canal should use traditional amplification.

Atresiaplasty or Canalplasty Indicated for:

  1. cases with congenital aural atresia.
  2. stenosis or narrowing of the ear canal because of the risk of cholesteatoma
The type of surgery depends on:
  1. The degree of stenosis
  2. The amount of anatomical preservation.

Bone-Anchored Hearing Amplification

Indicated to patients who has grade 3 or grade 4 microtia, atretic and missing canal. Bone-anchored implants are frequently used for aural rehabilitation in TCS patients because they avoid defective outer and middle ear anatomy.

Non-surgical option:

Children as young as neonates can be fitted with non-surgical devices, which entail wearing a hearing aid on a certain kind of headband. Most popular non-surgical method, “softband," makes use of an elastic, adjustable soft band.

Surgical option:

The calvarium can be operated on to insert an implant, which osseointegrates and sends sound from a processor to the working inner ear

Rhinoplasty in TCS Patients