How to treat deafness

Deafness, medically known as hearing impairment. At present, there are more than 20 million people with simple hearing disability in China, and the incidence of congenital double deafness in newborns reaches 0.1 to 0.3%. Moreover, many patients are acquired deafness, with the increase in age, the proportion of patients with hearing impairment has increased significantly, more than 50 years of age for 1/8, more than 65 years of age is as high as 1/3, more than 70 years of age 70% of the elderly have hearing impairment, seriously affecting the patient's social interaction and quality of life.

Currently, technically speaking, the problem of hearing impairment has been solved, thanks to the invention of various hearing implant devices. In the United States, Australia and Austria, very good quality hearing implant devices have been developed, which can basically satisfy the requirements of all kinds of moderately and severely hearing-impaired people. The main ones are: electronic cochlear implant devices, which can perfectly solve severe congenital and acquired cochlear deafness, and 30,000 cases have been carried out in China.

Especially for 2 to 4 years old pediatric and post-speech deaf patients, can get completely normal hearing and speech function, and get the same life as normal. Currently imported cochlear implant costs 290,000 to 110,000, if included in the reimbursement of major diseases or health insurance coverage or rural cooperative medical care, the patient's family financial burden will be greatly reduced, in the long run, a one-time investment, can be solved for the hearing impaired problem brought about by the later investment, such as for the government, the early treatment of deafness, adulthood, there is no need to specialize in the deaf patient's low income inputs, at present, free of charge in China for the At present, China provides about 2,000 cases of free cochlear implant surgery for deaf children. In recent years, domestic cochlear implants have also been put on the market, and the results are also very satisfactory, with a price of about 6 to 8 million yuan.

For patients with residual hearing, wearing ordinary hearing aids can not meet the needs of patients, you can choose vibration sound bridge, vibration bone bridge, bone-anchored hearing aids, semi-implantable hearing aids, etc., can be obtained almost normal hearing, the cost of the general ranging from 120,000 to 50,000 yuan, has been paved on the mainland of our country, and even the current state-of-the-art MAXUM implantable hearing aids, will be landing in our country. In addition, for cochlear deafness, can be auditory brainstem implantation (ABI), the chip implanted in the brainstem auditory center, can make the patient to obtain hearing, currently in Hong Kong has been carried out. These devices need to be surgically installed by specialized otologists.

In short, relying on these auditory implant technologies basically solves the problem of deafness, but since such devices are all developed abroad, they are very expensive, and with help from the government or medical insurance, more hearing-impaired people could have access to these high-end hearing solutions