The Chorimac 12. A multichannel intracochlear implant for total deafness.
In all of our cases, phonetic discrimination has been obtained without the help of lip-reading. Speech intelligibility is generally better in postlingual deafness that in prelingual deafness. We believe this method, despite the size of the external transmitter, is best for rehabilitation of totally deaf patients.
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D003638:Deafness / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008085:Lipreading; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013997:Time Factors