Restoration of Ossicular Continuity With Methyl Methacrylate

Abstract

DURING the course of experimental investigations intended to discover some of the factors underlying the poor predictability of results in tympanoplasty,^1,2 we have had numerous opportunities to observe the relationship between various characteristics of prostheses and their influence on the transmission of sound through the middle ear in human temporal-bone preparations. Through experiments which have demonstrated the adverse features of many types of prostheses now in common use, we have gradually acquired an understanding of the characteristics which appear to be necessary for an optimally effective prosthesis.