Medical Aspects

No surgery

1. „No treatment does avoid the risk of invasive surgery and some of the burden associated with comfort of some of the other treatment options, but does not provide any form of hearing rehabilitation.“ (Wie et al. 2010)

more at Cho et al. 2020

References

Patient-reported Aspects

No stigma

1. Thomas et al. (2017) reported relevant social stigmatization through the aesthetic presence of an audioprocessor in three out of seventeen individuals, but only one of them ended up as a non-user. (conclusion / Thomas et al. 2017)

more at Wie et al 2010