1Lt Gretchen Haywood
Wilford Hall Medical Center (WHMC) is the primary Air Force location for BAHA (Bone Anchored Hearing Aid) surgery and fittings. The BAHA is an alternative to traditional hearing aids for individuals with single sided deafness, conductive and mixed hearing losses. Questionnaires created by BAHA as well as WHMC will provide information pertaining to subjective evaluation of performance of BAHA vs. traditional hearing aids, objective data of BAHA benefit, ease of use, and reasons for use of BAHA. The presentation will include questionnaire information provided by future present BAHA patients as well as behavioral audiometric results obtained by those wiling to come in for additional testing.