Table 2.

Hearing outcomes comparison between early and long-term follow-up.

	Fascia Group (n = 98)	Cartilage Group (n = 44)	p-Value
Air conductive (AC) (dB)
Pre-operative	24.6 ± 6.81	26.58 ± 7.81	0.128
500	35.2 ± 4.47	34.24 ± 4.01
1000	34.73 ± 4.18	30.17 ± 3.15
2000	20.9 ± 3.98	25.6 ± 3.74
4000	6.21 ± 2.87	15.61 ± 2.23
Post-operative 6 months	11.23 ± 3.92	11.54 ± 4.18	<0.001
500	14.78 ± 3.23	15.75 ±2.93
1000	10.97 ± 3.46	9.78 ± 3.64
2000	11.25 ± 3.49	10.18 ± 4.15
4000	6.7 ± 2.5	5.87 ± 3.11
Post-operative 5 years	15.32 ± 4.39	11.68 ± 4.78	<0.001
500	21.2 ± 4.68	14.56 ± 3.48
1000	20.3 ± 3.69	14.98 ± 4.83
2000	10.86 ± 3.16	11.38 ± 3.81
4000	10.27 ± 3.95	5.13 ± 4.12
Bone conductive (BC)	5.73 ± 1.23	5.31 ± 0.95	0.46
500	5.81 ± 2.9	5.35 ± 3.28
1000	5.32 ± 4.33	5.81 ± 3.42
2000	5.08 ± 1.58	5.02 ± 2.85
4000	4.93 ± 2.58	4.71 ± 2.63
ABG (dB)
Pre-operative	20.3 ± 3.0	19.3 ± 2.7	0.04
Post-operative 6 months	4.9 ± 0.9	5.3 ± 1.2	0.04
Post-operative 5 years	10.0 ± 1.7	6.4 ± 2.0	<0.001