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Baha: Bone Anchored Hearing Treatment Procedure
Hearing Loss: Hartford Hospital ear specialist Dr. Marc Eisen conducted an outpatient procedure to implant an unobtrusive BAHA prosthesis on January 17, 2008. The procedure allows sound to travel through bone and overcomes the challenges of single-sided deafness.
Single-sided deafness, or deafness in one ear, afflicts some 50,000 people a year in the US alone. The loss of hearing in one ear can be caused by a traumatic injury, diseases like mumps or measles, hereditary disorders, or sudden deafness. Hearing through only one ear makes it difficult to determine which direction a sound is coming from, so crossing a street becomes hazardous, and detracts from one's ability to interact with people in social settings.
Now there is an innovative surgical procedure called a Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA) that is being performed at Hartford Hospital. During the live Internet broadcast, Dr. Marc Eisen, an ear specialist, conducted an outpatient procedure to implant an unobtrusive BAHA prosthesis that allows sound to travel through bone and overcomes the challenges of single-sided deafness.
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Featuring:
Marc Eisen, MD
Otorhinolaryngology
Gregory Bonaiuto, MD
Otorhinolaryngology
