“Is the stapes surgery still being done anywhere?”
What is this? Would like to know more about it.
Also how many allow you to recharge rather than buy batteries which are constantly needing to be changes?
This is from a Google Search:
A stapedectomy is ear surgery that can be done to treat hearing loss caused by a problem called otosclerosis. Otosclerosis causes a buildup of bone around the stapes (stirrup bone). The buildup of bone keeps the stapes from moving normally, resulting in a type of hearing loss called conductive hearing loss.
Ear Surgery for Hearing Loss: Stapedectomy - Summit Medical Group
www.summitmedicalgroup.com/library/adult_health/aha_stapedectomy/
When my Grandfather had the surgery they took a sliver of bone from somewhere else in the body and cut a new replacement stapes (stirrup bone). Nowadays it appears that they have high tech prosthetic replacements for the stapes and use lasers to vaporize parts of the diseased bone.
Being a Hard Rock Coal Miner in the last century before ear protection even existed provided a perfect patient for the new surgery back then.