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Cochlear implantation in Thailand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Kanate Vaewvichit  and
Parinya Luangpitakchumpol
Kanate Vaewvichit*
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.
Parinya Luangpitakchumpol
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.
*
Address for correspondence: Kanate Vaewvichit, M.D., Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.
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Abstract

This article evaluates and compares the benefits of a House/3M single channel cochlear implant or a Nucleus 22-channel cochlear implant on speech recognition in Thai-speaking patients. From 1986–1989, four profoundly deaf adults were implanted with the House/3M prosthesis. Since 1994, nine post-lingually deaf adults and three pre-lingually deaf children have been implanted with the Nucleus prosthesis. One case was implanted with the House/3M prosthesis and in the contralateral ear with the Nucleus prosthesis. The post-operative results were determined according to the ability to understand Thai monosyllabic, bisyllabic open-word sets and everyday sentence tests with, and without, lip reading. The scores were then compared in the House/3M users and the Nucleus users and compared between the House/3M cochlear implant and the Nucleus cochlear implant in the same user. The speech recognition scores on monosyllabic and bisyllabic open-word set demonstrated that the Nucleus users perform at a much higher level than the House/3M users. The results of four pre-lingually deaf children will be reported later after a period of auditory and speech rehabilitation.

Keywords

Cochlear implantThailand
Type
Main Articles
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 113 , Issue 6 , June 1999 , pp. 515 - 517
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1999

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