Is the stapes surgery still being done anywhere? My grandfather, a former miner, had the operation in the Sixties. His hearing went from almost none before the operation to painfully acute at times in a crowded room.
“Is the stapes surgery still being done anywhere?”
What is this? Would like to know more about it.
That’s interesting. My 25 yo son has severe hearing loss in one ear, diagnosed as otosclerosis (”overgrowth of bone” on the stapes/stirrup). The only solution is surgery, which they now describe as inserting a prosthesis. I’m surprised to hear that they did this 50 years ago, since my son described the treatment as having developed in just the past few years.