Prosthetic reconstruction to the stapes head or to the stapes footplate? A laser doppler study

Ossiculoplasty on Isolated Malleus Fractures

“…Laser Doppler vibrometry (LDV) is a method that has been previously used in numerous studies in both patients with middle ear pathology and also in temporal bone studies [10]. The LDV method detects the velocity of the movements of the ossicular chain, which makes it possible to estimate the loss/gain of sound transmission.…”