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"The
CLARION CII Bionic Ear's extraordinary capability to deliver
the fine details of sound in high resolution will provide the
hearing health profession with a powerful tool to manage
children and adults with severe and profound hearing loss.
This is how deafness will be treated worldwide over the next decade."
– Dr. Gerald Loeb, M.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering at USC, is a world-renowned scientist who was one of the original developers of cochlear implants and whose research has been published in Science, Journal of Neuroscience, Annals of Otology,
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A Cochlear Implant and Bionic Ear in One
The latest versions of cochlear implant sound extraction strategies, such as CIS and ACE,® deliver
subsets of the sound signal and not the full broadband sound signal in high resolution. While strategies like
these have provided conventional cochlear implant users with significant improvements in hearing, they
require users to fill in the gaps, which requires extra effort and attention. This can make hearing and
understanding speech more challenging, especially for young children.
The CLARION CII Bionic Ear System's Bionic Ear Mode™ picks up where conventional cochlear implants leave off. The system's Bionic Ear Mode, which is currently being tested in clinical trials, delivers over 10 times more sound information in high resolution to the hearing nerve. Delivery of the full sound signal versus using strategies to extract parts of the speech signal is designed to prove the highest sound fidelity speech understanding to its users.
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