Baha user

Benefits of Baha®

Sound is our lifeline to the world around, helping us participate in an active and social life. By using your body's natural ability to conduct sound, Baha® bypasses a damaged middle or outer ear and sends sound directly to your inner ear. With Baha you hear the things you're missing.

The benefits of Baha are well documented. By bypassing the outer or middle ear, Baha can help you hear better in noisy situations and allow you to localise sounds. Not only do you benefit from improved speech understanding, hearing with Baha results in a natural sound with less distortion and feedback when compared with conventional hearing aids.1-5 The ear canal is left open for comfort, and helps to reduce any problems caused by chronic ear infections or allergies. If you are completely deaf in one ear, Baha sends the sound via the skull bone from the deaf side to the inner ear of the hearing side. This transfer of sound gives you 360-degree sound awareness.

Try it without surgery

To find out if Baha is for you contact a health care professional for a demonstration. No surgery is needed to test Baha, you can try the system using a test band or using a Baha sound processor on a Baha Softband. This way, you can experience Baha first-hand, without surgery.

With Baha you can:

  • Experience great sound with less distortion & feedback1
  • Regain 360-degree sound awareness2
  • Experience sound without anything blocking your ear canal or any feeling of weight from a hearing aid on your ear3
  • Benefit from reduced problems from allergies or chronic ear infections4
  • Try Baha, before you decide to go ahead with surgery
  • Get a proven, clinically tested and documented hearing solution5
  • Benefit from more than 30 years of experience in bone conduction

Patient stories gallery

 

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    Abby

    "Now that she has the Baha, she’s really sharp and she’s picking up all the sounds real well and she’s doing great." - Abby's father

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    Doug

    "Being able to distinguish words is so important. I’m able to interact with my family, with my environment, and with my colleagues here at work in a way that I couldn’t before." - Doug

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    Hannah

    "I could hear the little sounds again, like footsteps." - Hannah

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    Quim

    "When Quim first used Baha with a Baha Softband he started crying. He was 7 months old and I don’t think he recognised my voice." - Quim's mother

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    Owen

    "He has totally discovered music in ways that he couldn’t before. His interactions with other children…Before, anyone who was standing on his left side was sort of out in the periphery. He didn’t know what to do with them." - Owen's mother

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References

  1. Flynn MC, Sadeghi A, Halvarsson G. Baha solutions for patients with severe mixed hearing loss. Cochlear Implants Int 2009;10 Suppl 1:43-7.
  2. Lin LM, Bowditch S, Anderson MJ, May B, Cox KM, Niparko K. Amplification in the rehabilitation of unilateral deafness: speech in noise and directional hearing effects with bone-anchored hearing and contralateral routing of signal amplification. Otology and Neurology 2006;27(2):172-82.
  3. Hol MK, Snik AF, Mylanus EA, Cremers CW. Long-term results of bone-anchored hearing aid recipients who had previously used air-conduction hearing aids. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2005 Apr;131(4):321-5.
  4. Watson GJ, Silva S, Lawless T, Harling JL, Sheehan PZ. Bone anchored hearing aids: a preliminary assessment of the impact on outpatients and cost when rehabilitating hearing in chronic suppurative otitis media. Clin Otolaryngol 2008;33:338–342.
  5. Snik AF, Mylanus EA, Proops DW, Wolfaardt J, Hodgetts WA, Somers T, Niparko JK, Wazen JJ, Sterkers O, Cremers CW, Tjellström A. Consensus statements on the Baha system: Where do we stand at present? The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology 2005 Dec;114(12) Suppl 195:1-12.