He and Samantha have a daughter who is deaf and is due for a cochlear implant.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, over 200, 000 people already use cochlear implants world-wide.
She had a titanium plate and cochlear implant fitted at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital on Saturday.
Dr. Backous has been performing cochlear implant surgeries since 1993, and has performed about 700 of them.
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He claims that Advanced Bionics is developing a cochlear implant that can restore hearing to the profoundly deaf.
Cochlear implants can deliver sound collected from an external microphone directly to the auditory nerve and into the brain.
The cochlear device will not allow her to hear completely naturally, Rosser said.
Pacific Time, Dr. Douglas Backous will be performing a cochlear implant surgery at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.
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She will also receive a cochlear implant to restore hearing to her left ear, in which she is currently deaf.
He is also working to shrink the device to roughly the size of a cochlear implant and make it less power-hungry.
The teenager had a titanium plate and cochlear implant fitted and was discharged from the hospital in February to continue her rehabilitation.
Some electronic circuits have also made their way into the bodies of people in the form of heart pacemakers and cochlear implants.
Meanwhile, Pierrick Legrand of the University of Bordeaux has used the method to optimise cochlear implants, which help people to hear better.
Designing a bionic eye has been much more difficult than developing other types of aids, such as a cochlear implant for hearing, say scientists.
Patients who receive a cochlear implant need between 6 and 15 months to regain their hearing to the point where they say things sound normal.
Merzenich built on that work to develop, with colleagues from UCSF, one of the first practical cochlear implants for the hearing-impaired, in the late 1980s.
She underwent surgery in high school to have a cochlear implant, which partially restored her hearing and helped her to more effectively communicate her story.
Della Santina has built a vestibular prosthesis that he hopes can someday be implanted in humans much like cochlear implants are now used to restore hearing.
Shares of hearing implants maker Cochlear surged 16% in strong volume after the company said it had identified the cause for the failure of its top-selling device.
Surgeons at the hospital said Saturday's operation, which also involved fitting a cochlear implant to help her get over deafness on her left-hand side, had gone well.
With promising results Biotectix moved into its own labs and landed its first commercial contract (with the Australian medical device maker Cochlear) to incorporate its invention in cochlear implants.
Within the community of the Deaf, someone who gets cochlear implants and joins the ranks of the hearing may feel like a Jew for Jesus at a Satmar Talmud class.
Six mornings a week, no matter what the season or which country he is in, Burns unhooks his cochlear implant, leaving him deaf, and goes for a three- or four-mile run.
Last week doctors said they would use a titanium plate to cover an opening in her skull, and give her a cochlear implant to partially restore hearing in her left ear.
With a number of academic collaborators, they fashioned an early retinal implant from a cochlear implant for the ear with 16 electrodes, each of which stimulated a small area of the retina.
Potter was hoping that Cigna archrival Aetna would get most of the negative attention, but in fact Cigna was a major villain, at one point shown denying a cochlear implant to a deaf child.
The measurements, translated to electrical impulses, would be delivered to the three vestibular nerves that emanate from the three semicircular canals, much like audio signals are delivered to the auditory nerve in cochlear implants.
Because each semicircular canal has its own nerve, a vestibular implant may actually be easier to perfect than a cochlear implant, which has to deliver many different sound frequencies to a single, bundled auditory nerve.
Scientists have said that designing a bionic eye has been much more difficult than developing aids like cochlear implants for hearing, in part because visual information is two-dimensional, and because of the anatomy of the eye.
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