Dr. Shashank Ojha highlighted cochlear implants as a solution for severe hearing loss at an Allahabad Medical Association event. Unlike hearing aids, ...

The cochlear implant consists of two parts: a small device that is placed during a relatively short surgery, and an externally worn speech processor. The cochlear implant converts acoustic sound to an ...

Cochlear implants help people with profound hearing loss to hear sounds and speech. They have two parts: one internal and one external, which means getting them involves surgery.

The cochlear implant has two parts. One part is surgically implanted under the skin, next to the skull. Thin wires emerging from this piece go into the inner ear near the hearing nerve.

Cochlear implants work by bypassing damaged parts of the ear and stimulating the auditory nerve directly, according to Shelley Duncan, an audiologist at Akron Children’s Hospital.

An implanted optical fibre stimulates parts of the cochlea. The location of the auditory neurons is shown in orange while the stimulated area is blue. (Courtesy: University Medical Center Göttingen) A ...

A medical device that has allowed thousands of deaf individuals worldwide the opportunity to hear—sometimes for the first time and well enough to talk on the telephone—is the focus of 15 personal ...

Cochlear implants, typically implanted in one ear, use electrodes to transmit sounds to the auditory nerve and brain, bypassing nonfunctioning parts of the ear.