Selahattin Genç1, Serdar Başer1, Ferit Bayakır1, Halil Erdem Özel1, Fatih Ozdogan1, Meliha Gülden Genç2, Adin Selçuk1

1Kocaeli Derince Training And Research Hospital, Department Of Otorhinolaryngology, Kocaeli
2Kocaeli Derince Training And Research Hospital, Department Of Radiology, Kocaeli

Keywords: Hearing aids, Implants, Bone, Complications, Pain, Device failure.

Abstract

The complications of bone anchored hearing aids are very rare. The most seen postoperative complication is soft tissue reaction locally occuring around the titanium implant. Chronic headache is a rarely seen complication related to bone anchored hearing aids application.
We presented a patient having complaints of chronic headache and burning sensation after bone anchored hearing aids application. Follow up for one year after the operation, despite the local and systemic therapies, there was no improvement of symptoms
and the device was compulsorily removed. This rare complication of bone anchored hearing aids application is reviewied in the literature and probable reasons of failure are discussed