Michigan farmer Larry Keely is sold on the device. I couldn't hear well at all before so this is great. I've never been able to hear like this before. Keely, who took part in the U-M trial, suffered from hearing loss for decades and had tried hearing aids, but without much success. With hearing aids, I couldn't pick up that much or sometimes I'd hear too much, way too much, and I'd shut them off.
Arts says standard hearing aids are the optimal way to go for the majority of patients.
However, for some people, there are problems with traditional hearing aids. They frequently move when people chew, making it difficult to hear at the same time. Background noise is almost always a problem for people with traditional hearing aids, and many people don't like the cosmetic appearance of standard hearing aids. The Symphonix Soundbridge, on the other hand, is implanted under the skin, avoiding comfort and sound distortion problems associated with having a hearing aid inside the ear canal. The device takes sound and turns it into mechanical vibrations as opposed to standard hearing aids, which simply take sound and amplify it.