CANAL DOWN AND RECONSTRUCTION WITH INTACT CANAL SKIN TECHNIQUE - II OSSICULOPLASTY
T. Doi, Y. Hosoda and T. Yamashita
Department of Otolaryngology, Kansai Medical University
Moriguchi, Osaka, Japan
In our hospital, canal down and reconstruction is usually managed in tympanoplasty. There are two main problems for artificial ossicular chain prosthesis; extrusion and postoperative slippage of prosthesis. We manufactured a new hydroxyapatite prosthesis cartilage connecting ossicular chain prosthesis" with a planar-like head portion to contact with a piece of cartilage The cartilage connecting ossicular chain prosthesis” tightly attached with a reconstructed tympanic membrane and ossicular chain prosthesis might be stable in tympanic cavity.