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For your patients who are no longer receiving benefit from traditional hearing aids
Find out if your patients can benefit from Cochlear hearing implant devices.

Is my patient a candidate for the Nucleus® Freedom™ cochlear implant system?
Selection criteria for cochlear implant candidacy has greatly expanded since cochlear implants were first introduced in clinical trails in 1985.

Candidacy changes have been expanded to include:

  • Adults and children with more hearing
  • Adults and children with more preoperative open-set speech recognition
  • Children younger in age
  • Persons with abnormal cochleae

Baha® Referral Guideline
The Baha System is the only implanted hearing treatment that works by combining a sound processor with an abutment and a small titanium implant placed in the skull bone behind the ear.

The system is based on a process of “osseointegration” through which living tissue integrates with titanium. Thus, the titanium implant becomes one with the bone allowing sound to be conducted via the skull, directly to the cochlea. This process is known as direct bone conduction.

View the Baha and Cochlear Implant Candidacy Criteria for Adults and Children.

Baha Candidate Selection Guide

This Candidate Selection Guide provides detailed information on how to select candidates who will benefit from Baha®. With bone conduction, sound bypasses the outer and middle ear, and goes directly to the inner ear. Baha is an effective implantable hearing solution for people with conductive hearing loss, mixed hearing loss, or single-sided sensorineural deafness (SSD™). The Baha system works by enhancing natural bone conducted sound.

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