Episode notes
I first heard the term “Hybrid cochlear implant” when I met David Dorsey (his interview also appears in cochlearimplantbasics.com ) in 2017. He had enough residual hearing that he was investigating these devices.
A hybrid, as the name implies, combines a cochlear implant to assist those missing frequencies along with a hearing aid to help the natural acoustical ones. It was David who mentioned Dr. Bruce Gantz as the expert in hybrid cochlear implants and he was willing to travel from Florida to Iowa for the surgery. I interviewed him not long after his activation in 2019. In 2021 he returned to Dr. Gantz to receive his second hybrid for his other ear.
Dr. Gantz has been in the field of cochlear implants for four decades. All the way from the pre-FDA approval days to the most recent advancement, robotic cochlear implant surgery. He exp ...
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