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Cochlear Implant
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• Introduction
• Cochlear Implant History
• Who can use Cochlear Implants?
• What is Cochlear Implant?
• The Procedure
• How Cochlear Implant works?
• Microphone, processor & transmitter
• Electrode array
• Programming the speech processor
• Mechanics of Cochlear Implant
• What determines success of Cochlear Implants?
• Risks and Disadvantages
• Efficiency
• Ethical issues
• Debate
• Cochlear Implant costs
• Future Development
• Manufacturers

Criteria for choosing a certain manufacture is not dissimilar than from choosing a mobile phone. What tends to decide users favor is:

Research indicates that all major manufacturer's devices perform adequately and no one device is markedly advanced than any concurrent emulation as the resulting relevant process of hearing seems to be commensurable as all have introduced successful innovations from competition. Currently Advanced Bionics, United States, Cochlear Limited, MED-EL, Austria, and NEURELEC, France are the top manufacturers of cochlear implant devices.

Americas subsidiary, Cochlear Ltd acknowledged in 2004 the complaints of illegal inducements to physicians to promote preferentially Cochlear devices were investigated by U. S. Department of Justice to its shareholders.