He and Samantha have a daughter who is deaf and is due for a cochlear implant.
She had a titanium plate and cochlear implant fitted at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital on Saturday.
Dr. Backous has been performing cochlear implant surgeries since 1993, and has performed about 700 of them.
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He claims that Advanced Bionics is developing a cochlear implant that can restore hearing to the profoundly deaf.
Pacific Time, Dr. Douglas Backous will be performing a cochlear implant surgery at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.
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She will also receive a cochlear implant to restore hearing to her left ear, in which she is currently deaf.
He is also working to shrink the device to roughly the size of a cochlear implant and make it less power-hungry.
The teenager had a titanium plate and cochlear implant fitted and was discharged from the hospital in February to continue her rehabilitation.
Designing a bionic eye has been much more difficult than developing other types of aids, such as a cochlear implant for hearing, say scientists.
Patients who receive a cochlear implant need between 6 and 15 months to regain their hearing to the point where they say things sound normal.
She underwent surgery in high school to have a cochlear implant, which partially restored her hearing and helped her to more effectively communicate her story.
Surgeons at the hospital said Saturday's operation, which also involved fitting a cochlear implant to help her get over deafness on her left-hand side, had gone well.
Six mornings a week, no matter what the season or which country he is in, Burns unhooks his cochlear implant, leaving him deaf, and goes for a three- or four-mile run.
Last week doctors said they would use a titanium plate to cover an opening in her skull, and give her a cochlear implant to partially restore hearing in her left ear.
With a number of academic collaborators, they fashioned an early retinal implant from a cochlear implant for the ear with 16 electrodes, each of which stimulated a small area of the retina.
Potter was hoping that Cigna archrival Aetna would get most of the negative attention, but in fact Cigna was a major villain, at one point shown denying a cochlear implant to a deaf child.
Because each semicircular canal has its own nerve, a vestibular implant may actually be easier to perfect than a cochlear implant, which has to deliver many different sound frequencies to a single, bundled auditory nerve.
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