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 No Wires, No Buttons, No Volume Control, No Visible device. This hearing system uses your own ear canal. "Sound" to good to be true? It's not. The Esteem is an implanted hearing system that is designed to treat medium to severe Sensorineural hearing loss, a permanent loss due to inner ear damage from aging, viral infections, noise and genetic factors. Want to see the video and how it works? Conductive hearing loss is different. Medical or surgical treaments quite often restore the hearing loss which is often the result of a punctured ear drum, earwax or fluid in the middle ear space. See, conductive hearing loss occurs when sound waves cannot transmit well through the outer or middle ear...or both. See the video and how it works HERE. The Esteem, as it is called, made by Envoy Medical Corporation of St. Paul, Minnesota, consists of three parts to the implant. A sound processor, sensor, and a driver. Now, the sensor senses vibrations from the eardrum and middle ear bones and converts these mechanical vibrations into electrical signals, which are then sent to the sound processor, which amplifies and filters the signal to compensate for the individual patient’s hearing loss. The driver converts the enhanced electrical signal back to vibrations, which are then transmitted into the inner ear where they are perceived as sound. Cool huh? See the video here. Other criteria for the device include: stable bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, a normally functioning Eustachian tube, and normal middle ear anatomy. A patient’s ability to understand speech using Esteem should be similar to that of conventional hearing aids. The system is designed to alleviate the effects of hearing loss in patients ages 18 years and older. As in all surgery, there are risks. 7 percent of participants experienced facial paralysis, and 42 percent experienced taste disturbance, both of which are results of the surgical procedure necessary to implant the device. The majority of these adverse events resolved during the one-year study period performed by Envoy Medical. And Envoy is conducting ongoing research and study for the next 5 years. It won't be long and Physicians along the Medical Mile and in West Michigan will be treating patients with the FDA approved First totally implanted Hearing System . www.MedicalMile.com Quote this article on your site To create link towards this article on your website, copy and paste the text below in your page. Preview :
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