Cochlear implants have become an increasingly common treatment for hearing loss, but it wasn’t always that way. In the 1990s, there were very strict requirements that would have excluded many of today’s recipients.
We get a lot of questions from people who are preparing for their hearing implant surgery. One of the most common has to do with anesthesia. Sometimes, people are concerned about anesthesia during implantation, but there’s very little to be worried about! Hundreds of thousands of individuals around the world have received hearing implants, from
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