Facial nerve damage can permanently paralyze the side of the face that the implant is on. Infection of the outer skin. Taste disturbances from your nerve being injured during surgery. Numbness around the ear that has the implant. Not being able to hear at all after getting the implant. Reparative granuloma result of the body rejecting the implant. Meningitis is an infection of the lining surface of the brain. The good effects of the cochlear implants are little. Hearing ranging from normal to none at all. Adults benefit almost immediately. Children improve at a slower pace. Can hear almost all soft to loud sounds. Many understand speech without lipreading. Can talk on a telephone/ watch TV normally. Can hear music and enjoy it. These affects are not guaranteed to all patients that get the cochlear implants. For some patients it wont work at all. Most people will not even consider the consequences there can be from getting a cochlear implant they just want there child to hear them and to "fix" them. You can not fix a Deaf person, they do not need to be fixed. Deaf people are just like us they can do everything we do accept for hear. Would the medical difficulties out way the
Facial nerve damage can permanently paralyze the side of the face that the implant is on. Infection of the outer skin. Taste disturbances from your nerve being injured during surgery. Numbness around the ear that has the implant. Not being able to hear at all after getting the implant. Reparative granuloma result of the body rejecting the implant. Meningitis is an infection of the lining surface of the brain. The good effects of the cochlear implants are little. Hearing ranging from normal to none at all. Adults benefit almost immediately. Children improve at a slower pace. Can hear almost all soft to loud sounds. Many understand speech without lipreading. Can talk on a telephone/ watch TV normally. Can hear music and enjoy it. These affects are not guaranteed to all patients that get the cochlear implants. For some patients it wont work at all. Most people will not even consider the consequences there can be from getting a cochlear implant they just want there child to hear them and to "fix" them. You can not fix a Deaf person, they do not need to be fixed. Deaf people are just like us they can do everything we do accept for hear. Would the medical difficulties out way the