A modern hearing device is giving Dennis and Susan O’Neil a chance to reconnect — and it’s covered by Medicare.

But bone anchored hearing aids are surgically implanted into your skull. BCHA, on the other hand, does not require surgical implantation. Some doctors consider BCHA a type of BAHA. If you have a ...

Another kind of hearing aid can be implanted in your middle ear or attached to the bone of your skull to send sound vibrations to your inner ear. Brain stem implant. This can allow you to sense ...

The cochlea is the spiral-shaped organ in your inner ear. There’s a main difference between cochlear implants and standard hearing aids: Hearing aids act as an amplifier to make sounds louder.

Walter Vidal Contreras Robles sat excitedly in the small waiting room of UNLV’s otolaryngology clinic with a bright smile on ...

The Audiology group in the UAB Department of Otolaryngology includes three main components: diagnostic testing, hearing aid services, and cochlear implants. Pure tone and speech audiometry Impedance ...

Approximately 12 million Americans wear hearing aids, while just over 180,000 Americans have cochlear implants. If you or your child has severe to profound hearing loss, cochlear implant surgery ...

Hearing aids amplify sound ... One part is surgically implanted under the skin, next to the skull. Thin wires emerging from this piece go into the inner ear near the hearing nerve.