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JOSEPH SATALOFF, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1963;77(6):569.

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Most of us have become aware, from the questions and expectations of our patients, that they frequently harbor unrealistic notions about what can be done for their hearing handicap. Much of their misunderstanding comes from the misleading implications they have read into popular articles and television shows. These articles and scripts can be technically correct and yet mislead the public.

When we are called upon to write such articles or advise professional writers, we should be particularly careful to mention, not only the favorable, but also the unfavorable aspects of stapes surgery.

We should state forthrightly that for reasons not yet understood a certain number of patients with good initial results experience secondary closure as early as a few weeks postoperatively. More important, the public needs to be told that in some patients who have stapedectomies the hearing can become much worse because of immediate or delayed postoperative sensorineural deafness. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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