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Original Article

Implantable Hearing Aid Using a Piezoelectric Ossicular Vibrator: A Speech Audiometric Study

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Pages 271-276 | Received 03 Nov 1995, Accepted 03 May 1996, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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