Bone anchored hearing aid
Okay kiddo, so you know how when you wear regular hearing aids, they sit in your ears and help you hear better? Well, some people have trouble using these kinds of hearing aids because they have problems with their ears, like a narrow ear canal or ear infections.
That's where a bone anchored hearing aid comes in! Instead of sitting in your ears, it attaches to a small titanium piece that gets surgically implanted into your skull bone behind your ear. This special piece is called an implant.
Then, the hearing aid part (which is called a processor) sits on the outside of your head and attaches to the implant with a magnet. The processor takes in sounds from your surroundings and sends them through your skull bone to your inner ear, where your brain can understand them as sounds you can hear.
So basically, a bone anchored hearing aid helps you hear better by bypassing any problems with your ears and instead sending sounds straight to your inner ear through your skull bone. Cool, huh?
That's where a bone anchored hearing aid comes in! Instead of sitting in your ears, it attaches to a small titanium piece that gets surgically implanted into your skull bone behind your ear. This special piece is called an implant.
Then, the hearing aid part (which is called a processor) sits on the outside of your head and attaches to the implant with a magnet. The processor takes in sounds from your surroundings and sends them through your skull bone to your inner ear, where your brain can understand them as sounds you can hear.
So basically, a bone anchored hearing aid helps you hear better by bypassing any problems with your ears and instead sending sounds straight to your inner ear through your skull bone. Cool, huh?