What are the cons of a cochlear implant?

Cochlear implant question?

  • I'm a cochlear implant user in college. It seems that the Cochlear implant companies are obsessed with implanting little babies/publishing studies of how well CI kids talk/bilateral cochlear implants/releasing huge Behind-the ear products with four to six hearing programs crammed in (a lot of data). Do the Cochlear implant companies care about offering young adult cochlear implant users the option of a completely in the ear canal cochlear implant sound processor with one hearing program? Additional details: The Lyric hearing device is a great example of a hearing technology that goes "completely" in the ear canal (100 percent invisible).

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    The cochlear implant artificially stimulates the inner ear area with electrical signals, sends those signals to the hearing nerve, and allows the user to hear. Although sound quality is sometimes described as "mechanical" and not completely like that experienced by a person with normal hearing, the cochlear implant provides users with the ability to sense sound that they couldn't hear otherwise. Improvements in the way the implant processes sound information are continuously being made to make the sound seem more natural. The actual cochlear implant consists of an implant package, which is secured inside the skull, and a sound and speech processor, which is worn externally (outside the body). Several components of the cochlear implant work together to receive sound, transfer it to the hearing nerve, and send it to the brain. MF

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Seems like you know more that readers like me. My suggestion is that you communicate directly with the companies. My feeling is that if you get in touch with the right person then there will be a positive outcome for your goal.

Shergill

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