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General Category => Hearing Issues => Topic started by: jazzfunkanne on April 07, 2010, 08:06:19 am

Title: ANY1 ELSES ABUTMENT BEEN PUT NEAR THERE SCAR
Post by: jazzfunkanne on April 07, 2010, 08:06:19 am

I noticed today that they put my abutment quite near my scar anyone else have this?

Title: Re: ANY1 ELSES ABUTMENT BEEN PUT NEAR THERE SCAR
Post by: james e on April 07, 2010, 08:43:09 am

3/4"

Title: Re: ANY1 ELSES ABUTMENT BEEN PUT NEAR THERE SCAR
Post by: tenai98 on April 07, 2010, 09:06:18 am

I'd say a good inch
JO

Title: Re: ANY1 ELSES ABUTMENT BEEN PUT NEAR THERE SCAR
Post by: grega on April 07, 2010, 12:23:17 pm

..... depends on which scar .....   :o

All seriousness aside  ::)  just this noon, I discussed abutment placement with the baha doc, as I'm due for that next Thurs.  Scar location didn't seem to matter, but he did want to know where the patch of titanium mesh is ..... the mesh left over from AN surgery.  Well, thinking about it more, it's been 5.5 yrs since my surgery, so my scar is kinda hard to find (yeh!) .... but the CT scan pix do show the titanium is still there (yeh again!).  And it's very possible the abutment will be placed right on the scar, at a place where the skull is pretty thick.

Greg

Title: Re: ANY1 ELSES ABUTMENT BEEN PUT NEAR THERE SCAR
Post by: leapyrtwins on April 07, 2010, 12:51:30 pm

Anne -

my BAHA site is right on top of my AN site.

In fact I have a screw from my AN surgery (the one that bolts my mastoid bone together - I had retrosigmoid) that needs to be taken out of my head since it's pretty near the surface of my skin.

Have to see my neurotologist about that one of these days  ::)

Jan

Title: Re: ANY1 ELSES ABUTMENT BEEN PUT NEAR THERE SCAR
Post by: jazzfunkanne on April 07, 2010, 02:49:45 pm

let me know how you get on .

Title: Re: ANY1 ELSES ABUTMENT BEEN PUT NEAR THERE SCAR
Post by: leapyrtwins on April 07, 2010, 05:42:10 pm

I definitely will.

My doc told me about this screw right after my surgery when my site was still healing.  He noticed that the top of it was visible under the skin, but he wanted to wait to see if it actually "surfaced" or not.  Today, a little over 2 years later, I think it's close to popping through, but not being able to see behind my ear (and having squeamish children), I'm not 100% sure of it's status.

I need to make an appointment, but at this point it's more of an annoyance than anything; sometimes I "hit" it when I'm putting my glasses on. 

If he does have to remove it he assured me that it's just a simple matter of using a screwdriver to unscrew the screw.  Office procedure; nothing major.

Jan

Title: Re: ANY1 ELSES ABUTMENT BEEN PUT NEAR THERE SCAR
Post by: Paul F on April 08, 2010, 12:13:44 pm

 There is more than one surgical procedure for the BAHA implant.  I had the one that has a flap.  Another procedure uses just a straight cut.  In that case, the abutment would be right on the scar.  I have forgotten where I found the information on the single incision procedure but my doctor did acknowledge the it existed.  If you are referring about a different scar, I can't help.

Title: Re: ANY1 ELSES ABUTMENT BEEN PUT NEAR THERE SCAR
Post by: wendysig on April 08, 2010, 02:32:24 pm

Mu abutment site crosses the  uppermost part of my scar.  My doc told me prior to my BAHA surgery that he was putting there.

Wendy

Title: Re: ANY1 ELSES ABUTMENT BEEN PUT NEAR THERE SCAR
Post by: james e on April 08, 2010, 03:25:20 pm

I had a straight cut and the abutment will go on the BAHA scar, and that scar is about 3/4" from my AN scar.