can ear surgery reclaim some of the hearing loss resulting from osteogenesis imperfecta?
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i hav osteogenesis imperfecta. as a result, i started having hearing loss at around 25 years. now, some drs. recommend ear surgery which can reclaim some of the loss, they say. they are all ENTs. they speak from their point of view.
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i hav osteogenesis imperfecta. as a result, i started having hearing loss at around 25 years. now, some drs. recommend ear surgery which can reclaim some of the loss, they say. they are all ENTs. they speak from their point of view.
can someone with experience in orthopaedics advice from their point of view if surgery wud prove beneficial?
also, is it possible that the surgery may break the soft bones of the ear since they are so soft, or the bones cant hold the artificial bone that wud be inserted?
please advice.
March 12th, 2009 at 8:11 am
i dont know that it is the same to what i had, but i had a hearing loss from the tubes being in my ears for so long. i think it was called a perfarated ear. I have had several hearing surgeries, but the last one i had in 99 they took a peice of skin off the back of my ear and put it in as a tube and according to the doctors and tests that i have had since, say my hearing is normal. I am actually able to join the military now. so they say, we will find out next month. I was said to have a hearing loss when i was born.
March 15th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Surgery benefits but to a very limited extent