Med-el Elektromedizinische Geraete Gmbh

Kathrin Sonntag

Uwe Steinhardt

Thomas Lenarz

Daniel Schurzig

Max Frölich

A coupling device for a middle ear implant includes a transducer end configured to engage an implantable electromechanical transducer, a bone engagement end configured to engage a temporal bone surface of a recipient patient, a planar loading spring located between the transducer end and the bone engagement end and configured for compression by displacement of the transducer end and the bone engagement end in towards each other, and compression indicators configured to provide visual indication of a pre-load force created on the temporal bone surface by the compression of the loading spring.

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Innsbruck, Austria

Kathrin Sonntag