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To: Tom Hua who wrote (693)9/2/2000 1:33:04 PM
From: Street Hawk  Read Replies (1) of 19633
 
Would anyone want to do this for $15-20K?

From the 10-K:

The surgical procedure for the implantation of the Vibrant Soundbridge
involves techniques that are similar to those employed in other common
otologic procedures. The internal receiver unit is implanted behind the ear,
under the skin and muscle. The conductor link connecting the receiver unit to
the FMT is placed through the excavated mastoid bone. These steps are similar
to those required for the surgical placement of a cochlear implant receiver.

Cochlear Implants

Cochlear implants were originally developed for people who have a profound
hearing loss, approximately one million people in the United States alone. The
cochlear implant is inserted into the inner ear in a highly invasive and non-
reversible surgery that destroys pre-surgery, unaided hearing (residual
hearing).

So it seems that the SMPX procedure is highly invasive after all, considering that they compared it to cochlear implant receiver surgery. And from their description of the Vibrant Soundbridge surgical procedure, there is no way they can say this is non-invasive like hearing aids. They are also only allowed to implant the device into just 1 ear, not both. And that's what the person pays $15-20K for. The other ear can't be done. So this procedure can't even be done for both ears for symmetrical hearing. What a horrible option to hearing aids. Oh, also, the procedure takes 2 hours, while laser eye surgery which someone compared this to a few messages ago, it has beeen said that procedure takes less than 15 minutes.
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