Technique for otosclerosis.

The surgical technique described in this article consists of performing an 0.8-mm stapedotomy at the posterior third part of the footplate using a large 6 mm square vein graft interposition and performing a vigorous inflation of the middle ear as early as the twenty-fourth postoperative hour. This technique allowed the authors to perform a series of more than 5000 operations over the last five years without any dead ear and with remarkable hearing improvement.