It has been long considered that air and bone are the two major mediators that conduct
sounds to the inner ear. In 2004, Hosoi found that vibration of aural cartilage, generated by …

Bone conduction (BC) stimulation has mainly been used for clinical hearing assessment and
hearing aids where stimulation is applied at the mastoid behind the ear. Recently, BC has …

Objective: To assess the benefits of a new type of hearing aid using cartilage conduction
(CC) in patients with severe conduction hearing loss and evaluate its potential for practical …

High-level impulse noise can permanently damage the ear and protection is therefore
essential. Using hearing protectors to occlude the external ear canal, reduces air conduction …

The position of a bone conduction (BC) transducer influences the perception of BC sound,
but the relation between the stimulation position and BC sound perception is not entirely …

Background Cartilage conduction hearing aids (CCHAs) were newly devised and spread
fast in Japan since their launch in 2017. However, little knowledge is available for this new …

Soft tissue conduction has been proposed as an alternative to bone conduction (BC) for
hearing vibrations applied at soft tissue positions at the human head. Arguments for soft …

Purpose Cartilage conduction hearing aids (CC-HAs) are novel hearing aids using the third
hearing pathway of cartilage conduction. We assessed the efficacy of CC-HAs in adult …

Cartilage conduction (CC) is a form of conduction that allows a relatively loud sound to be
audible when a transducer is placed on the aural cartilage. The CC transmission …

Because cartilage conduction—the transmission of sound via the aural cartilage—has
different auditory pathways from well-known air and bone conduction, how the output …