Abstract:Objective To study the clinical curative effect of titanium prosthesis on hearing changes in patients with chronic suppurative otitis media. Methods Forty patients with chronic suppurative otitis media were enrolled from June 2013 to June 2015. Using randomized single-blind extraction they were divided into two groups. The control group (20 cases) was treated by tympanoplasty. The observation group was reconstructed with titanium artificial bone on the basis of the control group. Before and after operation, pure tone audiometry was used to detect and analyze the patients' bone conduction hearing, air conduction hearing and air-bone gap (ABG), and the complication status of the patients was also analyzed. Results In both groups, the bone conduction hearing 2, 6, 12 and 24 months after operation was not significantly different from that at the same frequency before operation (P > 0.05). The air conduction hearing in the observation group 2, 6, 12 and 24 months after operation was lower than that before operation and that of the control group at the same frequency and same time (P < 0.05). At discharge, the effective rate of hearing improvement in the observation group was 85%, higher than 55% in the control group (P < 0.05), and the effective rate of ABG improvement was 75%, which was higher than 50% of the control group (χ2 = 4.286 and 3.956, P = 0.038 and 0.047). Conclusions Titanium prosthesis can significantly improve the hearing status of the patients with chronic suppurative otitis media, the effect of the operation and the postoperative recovery are good. It is worthy of popularization.