Stapedectomy is known to give good results for otosclerosis. In this study, an audiometric evaluation of patients who underwent small‐opening stapedotomy has been carried out at an early stage (3 and 5 days after surgery), and 1 month after surgery.At day 5 almost 60% of the patients showed a good functional result (mean residual post‐op air conduction/pre‐op bone conduction gap within 5 dB).While the timing of 4 kHz recovery overlapped that of the lower frequencies, recovery for 8 kHz was evident only at day 30, and was less likely to occur than for