Understand the meaning of and advantages of a BAHA hearing aid

A Baha hearing aid is actually short for bone anchored hearing aid which is a surgically implanted system that works through direct bone conduction for people with hearing loss.  A Baha hearing aid is used most often for people who would not benefit from traditional analog or digital hearing aids.  It is used to help people who suffer from chronic ear infections, deafness in one ear and congenital external auditory canal atresia.

A Baha hearing aid is quite interesting and consists of only 3 parts which include a sound processor, a titanium implant and an external abutment.  The Baha is designed to use bone transmission as the roadway for sound to travel to the inner ear. The sound actually bypasses both the auditory canal and middle ear.  The titanium implant is surgically placed and will integrate with the skull bone naturally.

How the Baha hearing aid works is that the sound processor will transmit vibrations created by the sound through the external abutment to the implant.  The skull bone will vibrate sending signals to the nerve fibers in the inner ear.  This stimulation will enable to person wearing the hearing aid to hear.