Re: Berti - residual hearing

[Guest guest]

Is the structure that's destroyed by the implant is only the hair cells? Or

is there any other part of the cochlea that's affected too by the implant?

I'm reading some article about regrowing hair cells, so I'm curious if in

the next few decades, regrowing hair cells is possible, we can remove the

implant and regrow hair cells to hear?

Thanks.

Regards,

Jerome

On 12/18/06, M Jansen <nucleus24@...> wrote:

>

> HI Berti,

> You are right, the implant usually destroys whatever residual hearing

> you had in the ear that gets the implant. So, if some is left, it's

> luck. Because the implant takes over the function of the cilia in the

> ears anyway.

> There are hybrid devices that are inserted part way into the cochlea.

> Those are for people who have good low frequency hearing, but bad high

> frequency hearing. So it's a hybrid device - Cochlear makes it - and you

> use it with a hearing aid.

> But for the most part, expect to lose any residual hearing in the ear

> that gets the implant.

>

>

> strange.....I thought that once you get a CI, what is left as residual

> hearing will be lost because of the implant.....

> or has this changed then?

>

> berti

>

>

[Guest guest]

Jerome- I doubt that we can remove the implants in light of hair cell

regeneration.

Snoopy

Re: Berti - residual hearing

Is the structure that's destroyed by the implant is only the hair cells? Or

is there any other part of the cochlea that's affected too by the implant?

I'm reading some article about regrowing hair cells, so I'm curious if in

the next few decades, regrowing hair cells is possible, we can remove the

implant and regrow hair cells to hear?

Thanks.

Regards,

Jerome

On 12/18/06, M Jansen <nucleus24@...<mailto:nucleus24@...>>

wrote:

>

> HI Berti,

> You are right, the implant usually destroys whatever residual hearing

> you had in the ear that gets the implant. So, if some is left, it's

> luck. Because the implant takes over the function of the cilia in the

> ears anyway.

> There are hybrid devices that are inserted part way into the cochlea.

> Those are for people who have good low frequency hearing, but bad high

> frequency hearing. So it's a hybrid device - Cochlear makes it - and you

> use it with a hearing aid.

> But for the most part, expect to lose any residual hearing in the ear

> that gets the implant.

>

>

> strange.....I thought that once you get a CI, what is left as residual

> hearing will be lost because of the implant.....

> or has this changed then?

>

> berti

>

>

[Guest guest]

Jerome,

" Anything is possible. " Given that, we dont know what research will

give us since we dont have access to the crystal ball.

That said, many of us live for today, meaning that if one is deaf and a

cochlear implant is a viable option, the time to hear is today.

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