Making deaf people hear
should just be a minor intervention,
available to all people in the world.

OtoJig is the name of our company and it is also the name of our high-precision mini-stereotactic system that enables minimally invasive access tunnels in human temporal bone surgeries. The system consists of a planning software conCIerge™ and several hardware devices. ConCIerge is used for image-based planning of the access tunnel.

Once you realize that the target region, for example the inner ear, is in a fixed spatial relation to the skull bone, the idea becomes obvious: Localize a small bone-anchored device (e.g. our Mini-Stereotactic Frame) in a CT scan and create a patient-individualized Positioning Jig that restricts surgical tools (e.g., drills) to a safe access path, respecting the patient's anatomy.

After the Mini-Stereotactic Frame has been fixated to the skull and our X-Ray Marker is temporarily mounted, conCIerge™ can localize the X-Ray Marker and thus the Mini-Stereotactic Frame in a CT scan with an accuracy of up to 0.03 mm, which is approximately 10 times better than the CT scanner's resolution¹.

Then a patient-individualized Positioning Jig is manufactured in under 5 minutes in our Otomat production machines directly on-site in the hospital. In this automated process, a through-hole at the defined position, angle and with a depth-step is created in the Jig.

The Positioning Jig (with the inserted Tool Guide) is mounted onto the Mini-Stereotactic Frame and restricts drill bits to exactly follow the pre-planned linear path. And we have patented this technology worldwide.

If you use OtoJig for cochlear implantation (CI), our Round Window Opener and our Insertion Tube are exclusively designed for the atraumatic FLEX electrodes from MED-EL, to simplify the insertion through the completely minimally invasive drilled canal.

“We are very confident that the OtoJig system will prove to be an indispensable tool as an assistant in this demanding microsurgery.” — Prof. Lenarz