4.1 Hearing benefits
Here, the ADHEAR system remarkably improved the hearing thresholds and speech perception under quiet and noisy conditions in patients with UMA. Patients with UMA had a mean FHG of 23.73 ± 3.47 dB HL over the range of 0.5–4 kHz; this result lies in the middle of the range of the previously published data of children wearing the ADHEAR system (17–35.6 dB HL) 15, 16. Better speech perception abilities were also achieved in quiet and noisy conditions with high participant satisfaction post-BCD-use.