Cochlear Implant

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The World Health Organization had estimated approximately 278 million people internationally are impacted by moderate to profound hearing loss in both ears. Diagnostic medical records from the World Health Organization proposed that the incidence of hearing loss frequently increases due to the population ages and life expectancy rate improving. Additionally, according to healthyhearing 2012, the majority of type of hearing loss people experience are sensorineural hearing loss; hair cells in the inner ear or nerve pathways from the inner ear to the brain are severely damaged. Ranges of technology such as hearing aids continue to expand and assist victims of hearing loss, however; the technology scientists had produced and offered to the public in the past, could only amplify sound. The development of the cochlear implant had significantly expanded ever since an Australian otolaryngologist, Professor Graeme Clark and his team of three Melbourne health professionals- audiologist Professor Richard Dowell, surgeons Dr Robert Webb and Dr Brian Pyman had successfully formed a solution to effectively restore hearing by developing the first multi-channel hearing prosthesis and to prove his proposal; he performed the first implantable prosthetic “bionic ear” surgery on a human patient with the assistance of a medical technology organization, Nucleus in 1974. The success had established doctors to commercially perform cochlear implant in patients from 1982 to the present in Australia and other countries in the worldd.
International researchers applied an implanted device which presented wires internally and externally leading to the head of an individual. Clark hypothesized theoretically that the implanted device provides more opportunities...

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According to the Co-operative Research Centre for Cochlear implant, the use of two microphones allows users to advance the perception of speech in environment, auditory nerve regeneration is necessary to enhance productivity, diminish surgery hazards and to fully develop a cochlear implant which resides under the skin completely in order to diminish the difficult use of the cochlear.
Ultimately, it is evident that Professor Graeme Clark had substantially changed the world for people with moderate to profound hearing loss despite the amount of risks. With the amount of limitations, the cochlear implant is referred to as premature technology which scientists are frequently improving. With technology gradually contributing, what will become the future development for the cochlear implant and how can their theoretical inquires become a reality?

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