Speech Understanding with a New Implant Technology: A Comparative Study with a New Nonskin Penetrating Baha System

Table 1

The difference (decrease) in speech understanding between the “Abutment” and the “Magnet 3” transmission paths is not statistically significantly different between the two subgroups SSD and MIX either in quiet or in noise.

Measurement	Group SSD; (mean ± SD)	Group MIX; (mean ± SD)	Difference between groups
Speech in quiet	15.0 ± 20.8%	6.6 ± 8.3%	8.4% (𝑃=0.75)
Speech in noise	−0.8 ± 1.8 dB	0.2 ± 2.9 dB	−1.0 dB (𝑃=0.80)