Hearing loss conductive hearing loss sensorineural hearing loss mixed hearing loss
Bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA)
Middle ear transducer
Envoy ESTEEM: piezoelectric
MED-EL: electromagnetic Vibration Ossicular Prosthesis (VOPR)
Otologics: electromechanical
Cochlea implant Volta (1790): metal rods in his own ears with 50-volt circuit > “like a thick boiling soup” noise Djourno & Eyriès (1950s): the 1st direct stimulation of CN8 > “a roulette wheel” or “a cricket” sound House (1969): the 1st wearable implant > a single electrode designed to aid lip-reading Clark (1978): the 1st Australian multi-channel cochlear implant U.S. FDA approval for adult (1984) > 2 years (1990) > 18 months (1998) > 12 months (2002) Totally implantable cochlear implant (TIKI, 2005)
Basic Scheme
Advanced Bionics, US
Cochlear Ltd, Australia
MED-EL, Austria
Neurelec, France
New and future directions Bilateral implantation the ability to listen using the ear with the better signal-to-noise-ratio Sound localisation Binaural advantage of using the signal from both ears Hybrid electro-acoustic stimulation Totally Implantable Cochlear Implant (TIKI)
Take home message Types of hearing loss and aids