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Accurate tests to assess hearing and recommend care.
Helping children and adults speak clearly and confidently.
Digital hearing aids fitted for your lifestyle and hearing loss.
From evaluation to AVT, we’re with you at every step.
Advanced hearing implant solutions for better clarity.
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Bone-conduction hearing aids are a type of hearing device that transmit sound through vibrations on the skull bone, bypassing the outer and middle ear and sending sound directly to the inner ear (cochlea). These devices are ideal for individuals with conductive hearing loss, single-sided deafness, or people who cannot wear traditional in-ear or behind-the-ear hearing aids due to chronic ear infections, malformations, or other ear-related issues. Bone-conduction hearing aids consist of a microphone and amplifier that pick up and process sound, and a vibrating transducer that sends sound vibrations through the skull. They can be worn in two main ways: non-surgically with a headband or adhesive pad, or surgically implanted (known as bone-anchored hearing systems or BAHS), where the device connects to a titanium implant in the skull for stronger sound transmission. While bone-conduction aids provide a valuable solution for specific types of hearing loss, they are generally not suitable for sensorineural hearing loss (problems in the inner ear). Users may experience pressure or discomfort from external models, and sound quality may be different from traditional hearing aids. However, for the right candidates, bone-conduction hearing aids can significantly improve hearing and quality of life.
The bone anchored hearing aid, or BAHA, is an implantable hearing aid designed to address conductive hearing loss, mixed hearing loss, or single-sided deafness (SSD).The BAHA uses the concept of bone conduction, or how sound is delivered to the inner ear by vibration of the bones in the skull. The BAHA system bypasses the middle ear system and delivers the sound signal directly to the inner ear. A titanium abutment, or screw, is surgically implanted in the bone of the skull behind the ear. An external sound processor is used that is attached to the abutment. The processor allows for the sound to be picked up and delivered directly to the inner ear. The BAHA can be safely implanted in both children and adults.BAHA users have been found to have significantly better speech understanding ability than with traditional bone conduction hearing aids and also improved ability to hear in the presence of background noise. Just as with hearing aids, the BAHA is designed with consideration to how listeners live their lives, including an adapter to connect an MP3 player or cell phone directly to the processor
The impetus behind the development of middle-ear implants has been improved fidelity by driving the ossicles and/or cochlea directly without occlusion of the outer ear and reduction of acoustic feedback (because the energy is not transduced back to an acoustic signal). Designed primarily for moderate to severe sensory/neural hearing loss, these devices are increasingly being used with mixed hearing loss as well. This implanted device consists of three components: (1) an external audio processor that transmits sound across the skin to (2) an implanted receiver, which in turn transmits the converted electrical signal to (3) a transducer mounted onto the ossicularchain. Later-developed fully implantable middle-ear hearing prosthetics (Bassim& Fayed, 2010), like partially implanted devices, appeal to some patients because of their reported advantages of improved sound clarity, reduced feedback, and the elimination of the occlusion effect.
The cochlear implant allows for direct stimulation of the auditory nerves. The internal receiver, which is implanted under the skin behind the pinna, consists of wire electrodes and a tiny coil. Up to 22 active electrodes are placed 22 to 24 mm into the scala tympani within the cochlea. Ground electrodes are placed outside the bony labyrinth, often in the temporalis muscle. A small microphone attached to an earhook feeds electrical impulses to a speech processor housed in a behind-the-ear casing, or a body-worn unit similar to a body-style hearing aid. The processor codes the speech information, which is subsequently delivered to a transmitter, which in turn converts it to magnetic impulses that are transmitted to the electrode array. An electrical signal is induced from the magnetic field in the cochlea and flows on to stimulate the auditory nerve.
This device, with the electrode array implanted directly into the brainstem, is designed to address neural pathologies of the auditory system, such as those that occur in neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2). Individuals with this type of hearing loss generally have no residual hearing ability and demonstrate no ability to make use of auditory information, often relying primarily on speechreading.The first ABI surgery was performed in 1979 . Analogous to the fact that the cochlear implant replaces a damaged portion of the auditory system, the ABI bypasses the damaged auditory nerve and is implanted directly into the brainstem.
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