What does a cochlear implant look like, is it like a normal person after it is installed?

A cochlear implant is an electronic device in which an external speech processor converts sound into an encoded form of electrical signal, which directly excites the auditory nerve through a system of electrodes implanted in the body to restore or reconstruct hearing function in deaf people. Cochlear implant surgery is also a kind of surgery, generally doing cochlear hearing in the very severe, although there is no strict age limit for cochlear implant surgery, but if the patient is older and misses language development, it is not recommended, and generally children from a few years old to teenagers do more.

A hearing aid is a small amplifier that amplifies sounds that are otherwise inaudible, and then uses the residual hearing of the hearing-impaired to send the sound to the auditory center of the brain and feel the sound. Common shapes are divided into: behind-the-ear, open, standard in-ear, and custom in-ear.

The difference between the two is that hearing aids can be thousands to tens of thousands, cochlear implants are hundreds of thousands to 300,000, and the later maintenance costs are several thousand a year. The difference is also that the cochlea needs to be surgically implanted, which has certain risks. As long as the hearing aids are fitted, they can be worn, and the young and elderly people with hearing loss are recommended to wear hearing aids, scientific fitting, daily wear, and safety and no risk without surgery.

Yes, you can do a check-up at the general outpatient clinic and then come to me; Or come on Monday, please ask the cochlear company on the 5th floor to represent you**, they are more familiar with the procedure. I don't care.

Chief Physician of Chi Fanglu, Department of Otolaryngology, Eye and Otolaryngology Hospital, Fudan University.

Abstract: Cochlear implants can be performed as long as there is severe hearing loss. There are also some people with congenital cochlear malformations who can also do it.

Are cochlear implants the same as normal people?

Hello, after cochlear implantation, it is the same as a normal person. Cochlear implants also don't produce interfering sounds. But with this kind of artificial planting, I can't consciously distinguish the sounds I hear.

If you can't ignore the car or other people's voices on the noisy road, it will lead to a decrease in self-discrimination.

What kind of people are cochlear implants suitable for.

I have otitis media that affects my hearing, I can hear normal speech, I can't hear small voices, and I need a cochlear implant.

Cochlear implants can be performed as long as there is severe hearing loss. There are also some people with congenital cochlear malformations who can do it.

Cochlear implants are divided into two parts: one part is implanted inside (in layman's terms, if your cochlear is not normal, use this machine as your cochlea, which is also a robotic cochlear implant). The other part is the receiver, which is placed on the outside, and you said that there is something on the head, which is what you refer to.

When it comes to effects, you are usually only recommended to do a cochlear implant when you can't help you with hearing aids, as for the sound effect, after all, it is a machine, and the sound you hear with the initial cochlear implant may be relatively monotonous (you should have heard the sound of the robot speaking in the movie), but now with the advancement of technology, it is much better! But it still can't compare to the human voice!

Cochlear implants are used for very severe deafness, vibratory sound bridges can be considered for moderate to severe deafness, and hearing aids are the first choice!

There are a lot of cochlear implants**.

Cochlear implant is to allow the patient to hear sound, it can make your hearing close to normal, hear talking, hearing speech does not mean that you can understand, whether you can understand depends on your specific situation, such as your speech foundation, children's language training, etc., the specific situation is analyzed. It's like asking a person who has never been exposed to a foreign language to listen to a foreigner, he can hear it, but he certainly can't understand it, so there is a learning process, and the length of this process varies from person to person.

Because the sound that the patient hears through the cochlear implant may be different from normal hearing, after the cochlear implant is implanted, the patient needs to have a process of familiarizing and learning the sound of the cochlear implant, gradually understanding the language and learning to speak. After the necessary training and familiarization process, most implanters with speech foundation can understand other people's speech and participate in daily conversations after a period of adaptation training after turning on the computer. Children with pre-verbal hearing loss are implanted during the critical period of language, and can understand speech after successful language training.

Not necessarily, it depends on the time of doing and whether there is a basis for speech that is related.