Hybrid Hearing Aid

The first technology is acoustic amplification.

Hybrid hearing aid.

How hybrid hearing works. Cochlear hybrid hearing. Hearing implants may also be used by people with specific types of hearing loss such as sensorineural conductive or mixed hearing loss as well as people with a damaged or non existent auditory nerve or those who for some. It uses acoustic amplification of the natural low frequency hearing you may have after surgery while taking advantage of cochlear implant technology to restore access to the sounds you re missing.

As presbycusis or age related hearing loss occurs in the higher frequencies first hybrid cochlear implants can become a viable option for older adults who no longer have any hearing benefits from wearing hearing aids. It uses the acoustic amplification of the hearing aid to improve low frequency hearing while using electrical stimulation of the cochlear implant to improve high frequency hearing. Clinics have been creating their own form of a hybrid implant for years by using a cochlear implant with a shorter partially inserted electrode array and wearing. Having hybrid cochlear implants are only a small part of the hearing loss management journey to have better hearing.

Hearing implants are used when you have a hearing loss and would not benefit from the sound amplification of hearing aids.