UPCOMING EVENTS
Dr. Danner will be speaking with the ANA Sarasota support group on April 7th, 2018. Many benefits can be gained from a supportive group environment. Family, friends, caregivers and interested [...]
The Miracle in the Christmas Play
After hearty handshakes and friendly hugs with a lovely young couple and their daughter, we walked away thinking back about seven years earlier. When I first met them, they [...]
Naída CI Q90
Partners for better hearing Phonak and Advanced Bionics have released their new Naída CI Q90 sound processor. The new processor sports a new thinner & smaller design, performance enhancements brought [...]
Maternal prenatal smoking and hearing loss among adolescents
Although smoking and secondhand smoke exposure are associated with sensory hearing loss in children and adults, the possible association between prenatal smoke exposure and hearing loss had not previously been [...]
Comparative Benefit of Stapes Surgery for Hearing Loss in Children and Teens, Some with Congenital non-mobile Stapes, Some with Disease Caused non-mobile Stapes
Of the three hearing bones, the one most likely to become "stuck" or "non-mobile" is the third one, the stapes bone. All three hearing bones oscillate in response to incoming [...]
Advantages of hyaluronic acid fat graft myringoplasty over fat graft myringoplasty.
Perforations of the ear drum membrane in children are not rare and can be a side effect of having had middle ear ventilation tube surgery. When a perforation persists either [...]
Children With Sensorineural Hearing Loss After Passing the Newborn Hearing Screen
The authors analyzed the findings of children who passed their newborn hearing screen and were subsequently found to have childhood hearing loss. They identified 923 children with hearing loss from [...]
Factors Affecting Postural Instability in Ménière’s Disease
In Ménière's disease (MD), several factors can create postural instability. In a recent study, 54 definite MD patients were compared to 66 controls. Several tasks were tested: two-legged stance tasks [...]
Effects of Aural Atresia on Speech Development and Learning
Congenital aural atresia is a birth defect that consists of absence or a severely narrow external ear canal. The eardrum membrane and hearing bones are commonly also deformed and other [...]
Leftover Stuffing
Our Christmas tradition for over 30 years has been turkey and dressing and family with a reading of the Advent passages. Our celebration used to have more family over, but [...]