Cochlear implant is one of the important ways for elderly deaf patients to regain hearing, which can significantly improve the quality of life of the elderly.

Are cochlear implants only for people with total deafness?

Cochlear implants and hearing AIDS have different sound amplification mechanisms.

It converts the external sound into electrical activity, stimulates the spiral ganglion cells in the cochlea through electrodes, so that the ganglion cells are excited and discharged, and then transmitted from the auditory nerve to the brain center, so that we can hear the sound.

In the past, cochlear implants were almost always done in patients with total deafness or extreme deafness, but this does not mean that cochlear implants are only suitable for these patients.

In recent years, the hearing threshold required for cochlear implantation has been decreasing year by year, and in the past, the pure tone audiometric results were required to be 100 decibels, and then gradually dropped to 95, 90, 85, 80 decibels.

Now for the elderly with pure tone audiometry of 75 decibels, if the hearing aid is not effective, it is recommended to do cochlear implant surgery.

At this time, due to the presence of residual hearing, the operation will be better.

Is it right for the old man to think that he is too old to have surgery?

Many elderly people do not want to contact new things, think that they are too old to live for a few years, can not hear, do not want to increase the burden of their children, very resistant to cochlear implant surgery.

Before we also mentioned that the harm of deafness in the elderly is not only reflected in life, but also reflected in psychological, emotional and other aspects, the old only audible, visible, in order to have a better emotional play to the family, in order to prolong life, so the hearing problem needs to cause patients and children to attach great importance.

There is no age requirement for cochlear implants.

The maximum age of implantation is 93 years old, and as long as the body is in good condition, the operation can generally be accepted, and the effect is also good.

At present, more and more elderly people are receiving cochlear implants, and the proportion of adult cochlear implants accounts for 30%. Many elderly people from all over the world return to the sound world through cochlear implants, and their lives become colorful.

The degeneration of brain function occurs in the elderly, is cochlear implant still useful?

With the growth of age, the whole body function of the elderly will be degraded, the brain nerve is the same, some elderly people will have brain atrophy.

From the current research, the effect of cochlear implantation in the elderly is very accurate and very reliable.

Although individual patients have brain atrophy, it does not affect the implantation effect, and we can not worry about it.