The Esteem fully-implantable middle ear device
The active middle ear implant (AMEI) may be considered, in selected cases, a valid
alternative to conventional hearing aids (cHA) for rehabilitation of bilateral sensorineural
hearing loss (SNHL). The Esteem ® represents one of the two invisible solutions that can
be adopted at the present time, and it is the only one with FDA approval since 2010. Since
2007, at the Implanting Centre of the University Hospital Sant’Andrea in Rome, 43 sub-
jects underwent surgery for application of this device, after having ascertained by CT scan