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Common Symptoms
- •Severe or profound hearing loss offering minimal benefit from hearing aids
- •Inability to understand speech on the telephone even with amplification
- •Children born deaf or failing newborn hearing screening (OAE/BERA)
- •Sudden profound post-meningitic or idiopathic bilateral deafness
- •High reliance on lip-reading despite optimal hearing aid fitting
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Conditions Treated
- ✓Congenital bilateral profound sensorineural hearing loss in children
- ✓Post-lingual adult severe-to-profound deafness
- ✓Auditory neuropathy spectrum disorders
- ✓Cochlear ossification post-meningitis requiring rapid implantation
- ✓Single-sided deafness (SSD) in selected candidate protocols
Diagnostic & Advanced Treatment Protocols
1. Clinical Diagnosis
- →Diagnostic Pure Tone & High-Frequency Audiometry
- →Auditory Brainstem Response (BERA / ABR) and ASSR testing
- →Hearing Aid Trial and Aided Speech Perception Score assessment
- →High-Resolution CT of Temporal Bones (electrode trajectory analysis)
- →High-field Inner Ear 3D-CISS MRI (cochlear patency & cochlear nerve status)
2. Surgical & Medical Treatments
- →Pre-implant Candidacy Workup
- →Minimally Invasive Implantation
- →Post-op Telemetry & Mapping
- →Auditory-Verbal Handoff
When to Consult an ENT Specialist
Early evaluation prevents chronic complications. Schedule a specialist consultation promptly if you experience:
- •Infants not responding to sounds, claps, or voices by 6 to 9 months
- •Adults whose hearing has degraded to the point that hearing aids fail to clarify speech
- •Post-meningitis deafness in children (requires immediate urgent evaluation)
Frequently Asked Questions
How does a cochlear implant differ from a hearing aid?
A hearing aid amplifies acoustic sound into the ear canal. A cochlear implant bypasses damaged microscopic hair cells entirely and stimulates the auditory nerve directly using an implanted electrode array.
What is the optimal age for a child to receive a cochlear implant?
Children born with profound deafness benefit most when implanted early—ideally before 1 to 2 years of age—enabling normal cortical speech and language development.
Consult Our ENT Specialists in Chandigarh
Receive an accurate evaluation and tailored treatment plan from Dr. Ganesh Dutt Rattan and Dr. Anav Rattan.