Hear Your World
Selecting the right cochlear implant system for you or your child is a life-changing decision. For something as significant as your ability to hear, you want the best in quality and performance. Advanced Bionics offers the industry’s most technologically advanced, best performing cochlear implant systems to help you enjoy the vibrant world of sound.1-5
These top 10 reasons show why choosing AB is the right choice for the ability to hear more of your world and live life to the fullest.
AB delivers the best performance by offering the industry’s most advanced technology to bring you five times more resolution than any other cochlear implant system. Independent studies prove that AB recipients hear better in real-world situations than recipients with other cochlear implant systems.1,2 Now, for the first time in history, recipients have access to the combined dynamic technologies from AB and Phonak, the innovation leaders in cochlear implants and hearing instruments. Hear your best everywhere, every time with AB.
AB is number one in “Total System Reliability”— the reliability of both the internal and external components.6 Made to last, the HiRes 90K™ Advantage implant features mechanical improvements on the HiRes 90K implant that leads the industry with a 99.8% one-year cumulative survival rate (CSR),3 a measure that defines the likelihood of a device continuing to function over time. AB’s Harmony™ processor has the lowest average three-month failure rate of less than 1%.3 We make reliability our first priority, ensuring that you can count on AB to keep you hearing your best day after day.
Only AB offers ClearVoice™*, the industry’s only sound processing technology that has been clinically proven to deliver superior hearing performance in noise. Now delivering Phonak Binaural VoiceStream Technology™, AB provides more innovations for optimized hearing in noisy settings than any other cochlear implant manufacturer.
*Not approved for pediatric use in the United States.
Hearing in and around water is crucial for socialization, language development, and safety. Only AB offers Neptune™, the world’s first and only waterproof, swimmable sound processor. Designated for use in and out of pools, baths, oceans, lakes, and rivers, Neptune has been developed to help you or your child swim like a fish and hear like a dream.
AB is the only cochlear implant manufacturer to offer access to the ComPilot, AB myPilot, TVLink and RemoteMic for the ultimate in wireless connectivity. Advanced features and functionality link you seamlessly to Bluetooth devices, mobile phones, computers, media players, TVs, navigation systems, FM, and countless other devices. Choosing AB keeps you connected to the media that entertains you, the music that moves you, and the people who love you.
AB provides the most innovations for optimal music appreciation and enjoyment. AB’s HiRes Fidelity 120™* sound processing is the only strategy that can implement simultaneous current steering to deliver the dimensions of music (loudness, pitch, timing) for a full listening experience. The naturally placed T-Mic™ microphone makes it effortless to use your MP3 player. AB also developed ClearVoice™* to help you understand the lyrics of your favorite songs.
*Not approved for pediatric use in the United States.
Another industry first has arrived from AB, changing the way you hear. Now music, phone calls, TV shows, FM, and endless other media can be wirelessly streamed to both a hearing aid and sound processor or two sound processors at the same time. Combining patented technologies to deliver innovations that improve lives, AB and Phonak are the clear market leaders in bimodal and bilateral hearing.
When you choose AB, you benefit from superior internal technology now, with headroom for full external upgradeability so that your hearing advances as the technology does—without the need for additional surgery. AB cochlear implants offer unmatched programming flexibility, nearly unlimited ways to deliver sound, and capacity for technologies not yet invented. You can count on AB to develop leading innovations that improve your quality of life.
AB offers the industry’s only lifestyle™ line of flexible wearing styles. With the introduction of Naída CI Q70* (Naída CI), the market’s first featherlite, instyle™ design has arrived. Slim and trim, Naída CI sound processors are incredibly lightweight for barely noticeable on and off-ear wearing. For those who prefer to never wear anything on the ear, the swimmable Neptune™ processor features the only freestyle™ design, giving you the freedom to choose your wearing style—in your hair, on your arm, under your collar, in your pocket—without compromising performance.
The patented T-Mic™ microphone is the only microphone placed naturally at the opening of the ear for highly focused hearing, allowing you to use headphones, cell phones, and other devices just like everyone else. The all-new T-Mic™ 2 provides enhanced aesthetics, comfort, and durability. The AB myPilot remote control provides one-touch setting changes, status information, listening checks, and access to the ZoomControl feature for focusing on the speaker to your right or left.
Spahr A, Dorman MF, Loiselle LH. 2007. Performance of Patients Using Different Cochlear Implant Systems: Effects of Input Dynamic Range. Ear and Hearing. 28:260-275.
Haumann S, Buchner A, Lenarz Th. Does the Input Dynamic Range of Cochlear Implant Processors Influence Speech Perception in Adverse Listening Situations? Oral Presentation at the 10th International Conference on Cochlear Implant and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies, San Diego, CA. April 10-12, 2008.
Gifford R. Speech Perception in a Realistic Background Noise: Effectiveness of Preprocessing Strategies and External Options for Improving the Signal-to-noise Ratio. Presentation at the 10th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies, San Diego, CA, April 10–12, 2008.
Wolfe J, Mears A. Effect of Input Dynamic Range on Speech Recognition and Music Enjoyment. Poster presentation at the 10th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies, San Diego, CA, April 10-12, 2008.
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