About the Authors

Max Eike Timm

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

timm.max@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Omid Majdani

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Tobias Weller

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Mayra Windeler

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Thomas Lenarz

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Andreas Büchner

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Rolf Benedikt Salcher

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Competing Interests

Company MedEl paid for one scientific congress charge, traveling and hotel costs for Max Eike Timm and Thomas Lenarz in the past (2017,2018). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.