Evaluation of Flexible Conductive Hearing Aids
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- Where
- Winston-Salem, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 200 people, planned
- Started
- 14 Jan 2026
- Expected to end
- Nov 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- flexible conductive hearing aid
- Record updated
- 25 September 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 6 months to 80 years
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Can take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Male and female infants, children, adolescents, and adult patients who are diagnosed with unilateral or bilateral mixed or conductive hearing loss
- Male and female patients seen at Atrium Health-Audiology for a clinical, standard of care office visit who have a diagnosis of conductive or mixed hearing loss and may currently wear hearing aids
- Male and female infants, children, adolescents, and adults who are candidates for conductive hearing aids (Osseo-integrated or wearable aids) or for canalplasty or ossicular chain reconstruction surgery
- Healthy subjects will include male and female infants, children, adolescents, and adults who do not have conductive or mixed hearing loss
- Pregnant women -are eligible for this study. Standard of Care allows pregnant patients to be fit for hearing aids without risk
Who cannot take part
- Adult patients unable to independently understand the purpose of the study and the procedures and/or who are not willing to participate
Where in United States
- Wake Forest University Health SciencesWinston-Salem, United StatesContact: Mohammad Moghimi, PhDTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Conductive hearing loss (CHL) is the most common type of hearing loss among the pediatric population. CHL occurs when sound is not properly transmitted from the external ear to the cochlea, and congenital pathologies like microtia/anotia, atresia, and absent or malformed ossicles make hearing loss permanent.
The group in the trial
- flexible Band-Aid style hearing deviceTreatment being tested
Patients with conductive/mixed hearing loss will be assessed to observe their hearing threshold before using the hearing aid and reassessed with our hearing aid attached. Healthy subjects will wear noise-cancelling headphones and ear plugs to simulate conductive hearing loss, and their hearing threshold will be assessed before and during the flexible hearing aid attachment.
Treatment: flexible conductive hearing aid
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- A Noninvasive, Flexible Conductive Hearing Aid With Micro-epidermal Actuators on Pediatric and Adult Patients
- Record updated
- 25 September 2026