The analysis of the anatomical change of the external ear to the measure of REUR in hearing impaired elderly patients"

• Grant number: 10/05908-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2010
• End date: May 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Speech Therapy
• Principal Investigator: Wanderleia Quinhoneiro Blasca
• Grantee: Aline Papin Roedas da Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru (FOB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Bauru , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Introduction: senility may lead to anatomical changes of both outer and middle ear and exist the need to examine the relationship between these changes and their consequences to be performed reure (resonant response of the auditory canal of the patient) during the process of adapting hearing aids individual, providing enough amplification to hear the individual sounds to stick to the natural resonance of the ear.Objective: To analyze the natural resonance of the external auditory canal in the elderly who have anatomic changes of aging.Subjects: 30 elderly will be assessed regularly seen in the Speech Therapy Clinic of the Faculty of Dentistry of Bauru of the University of Sao Paulo, who have a diagnosis of bilateral hearing impairment of varying degrees, with abnormalities of the MAE of aging.Be analyzed the resonance of external ear (Reur) and the gain of resonance of the external ear (Reug)