Cochlear Implants: The Amazing Technology That Restores Hearing

The essence of humanity is the ability to communicate and interact with one another. Hearing loss makes it difficult to be part of that interaction. Doctors at the Yale Medicine Hearing & Balance Program can help. A cochlear implant is a powerful device that can bypass the damaged inner ear and stimulate the hearing nerve to recreate hearing. It can help people with profound hearing loss to communicate again and get their lives back. It is made of an external sound processor that transmits to a surgically transplanted implant. This video tells two patients' stories. Doctors Elias Michaelides, MD, and Douglas Hildrew, MD, specialists in the Yale Medicine Hearing & Balance Surgery Program, and audiologists Jennifer Hooper, AuD, and Megan Narron, talk about the nature of hearing loss, treating their patients and how cochlear implants work.

[elaineseverino]

my daughter was born premature, 24 weeks. When she was six months old they confirmed to us that she was not listening and indicated cochlear implants, she is 15 months old now and we have not been able to do it, because in our country (Dominican Republic) they are extremely expensive and we do not have any help.

[blainedoan]

Make sure you tell people that it’s is painful the area were it is implanted is always sore