RIYADH: An 11-year-old girl’s suffering came to an end after a medical team from the Security Forces Hospital in Riyadh performed two simultaneous surgeries.
The girl was diagnosed with a bony blockage in the external auditory canal, which caused delayed speech and hearing loss.
The medical team performed a canalplasty to widen the auditory canal and restored the external auditory canal and eardrum using prosthetic tissues from the patient’s hand and cartilage from the pinna of the first ear.
The team simultaneously placed an OSIA hearing implant in the other ear.
The first of a kind successful procedure improved the patient’s hearing using two different techniques.
