1. What are Hearing Implants?
Hearing Implants are electronic medical devices that
| A. | receive sounds through a miniaturized microphone |
| B. | convert these sounds into a complex series of electric signals that are adapted to the individual characteristics of a user’s hearing loss |
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transmit these signals through the skin to a small implanted electronic component that converts the received signals
either
into mechanical impulses that simulate the ear drum-ossicles chain of sound processing by the middle ear in normal hearing; refer to MED-EL’s Middle-Ear Implant, the VIBRANT SOUNDBRIDGE system
or
into electric impulses that are used to directly stimulate the appropriate auditory nerves in the cochlea, Cochlear Implants; refer to |
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