Artificial Auditory Implantation:A New Revolution in Surgical Treatment for Deafness
YANG Shi-ming
LI Jia-nan
JIAO Qing-shan
Abstract： Along with continuing progress in artificial auditory implantation technology across the world, and for the purpose of treating hearing disorders of various nature and meeting the needs of patients with hearing loss of various severities, there has been on-going development and application of new types of auditory implantation devices (Figure 1) [1]. In addition to adop-tion of cochlear implant (CI), vibrant Soudbridge (VSB), bone-anchored hearing aid, BAHA), auditory brainstem implant (ABI) in the clinic, other auditory implantation devices are also under various stages of clinical or pre-clinical research, in-cluding totally implantable cochlear implant (TICI), auditory midbrain implant (AMI), optical cochlear implant (OCI) and total-ly implantable middle ear implant [2-4]. At present, CI, VSB and BAHA have been generally accepted as matured treatments in China, with increasingly perfecting surgical techniques.
Keywords：Artificial auditory implantationdeafness
Publication Date：2013-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 171-174 )