okay Jason I can have you turn and face me okay so how does it
sound? He is the second simultaneous bilateral
recipient for the active piezoelectric based
transcutaneous bone conduction implant um in the Los
Angeles area um he went from wearing bilateral percutaneous bone anchored
hearing aids but due to repeated skin infections
around the abutment site a transcutaneous option was presented to
him it's also a privilege for me to activate him since he is the first
bilateral and first simultaneous transcutaneous bone conduction implant
recipient at our clinic
So my hearing loss started when i was around 30 years old I'm 53 now
and just started developing it over time so how does it sound it sounds really
good yeah it's really fast yeah that's great
is it clear and crisp yeah okay yeah how's the volume how does it see the
barn can maybe go up a teeny bit you think you want more volume a teeny
bit okay but it sounds good though the cochlear aussia system is the
world's first and only active osteo-integrated active
steady-state implant system using digital
piezoelectric stimulation to send sound directly to
the cochlea it's really been a game changer not only
in terms of cosmetics for the patient but also in terms of
hearing performance it really provides a high amount of
power for the patient but especially in the high frequencies
and this makes a big difference in terms of both speech understanding
and general sound quality but also for things like noisy
situations and challenging listening environments
oh it's so different this is so natural normal life sounds and it's
with hearing aids it's so artificial i've found and it's not
true real sound i'm grateful for the sound that i got out of them
but when i wear compare them to something like this
it blows it away it's just it's so natural
sounding it's it makes you really realize
things that you were missing out on i love
the the design of it i love the fact that they don't protrude out too much
that they're really thin very lightweight
i love that i love the feel you don't even feel like that they're on
which is great other than the headband here which
for a few weeks but um but i couldn't feel it
at all when i was where i am so i like that a lot
you know you got your hearing device and you also have a pair of headphones with
it really because you can hear everything
through the ossia all your music phone calls whatever you're going to be
playing through your phone and videos movies whatever so it goes
directly to the device sounds good you want to
call your life oh sure yeah just hold you can just hold
it like you're on speaker and then if it's too low you can
obviously control it hi how are you
okay then you can't hear this it sounds like i'm on speakerphone
so i mean i know you're not speaking once we're just testing this out here
how does it sound to you yeah okay great it's it's very strange
it sounds like you're on speaker like everybody can hear what's going on
yeah but it sounds great i think definitely the research that
has historically happened here for the cochlear implant
has been you know a pioneering element within audiology and otology the
research that house has been doing historically
probably has paved some sort of way for technology to become a part of hearing
healthcare and obviously a big part of that right
now is bone conduction implants working in implants for the past you
know 16 years i never dreamed that people with
significant hearing loss would be talking on cell phones would be having
the level of connectivity that cochlear has been able to provide
to recipients so i i continue to see things getting smaller
connectivity getting better and better and people just being able to
again live lives without limitations and you know being able to really truly
being able to do whatever it is they want to do it's you
know what i just feel so blessed to want to be able
to come here and have such great care and all of you guys and and have
these devices it's just really a blessing
i'm smiling under the mask oh thank you
hi i'm erin associate director of education and global hearing health here
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