OtoKinetics: Stimulating Cochlear Fluid To Improve Hearing
Executive Summary
Currently, people with severe hearing loss are treated with conventional hearing aids, which have less than a 50% success rate due to such problems as feedback and discomfort. OtoKinetics Inc. hopes to increase that efficacy rate to at least 90% with its Krescendo implant, a titanium device about the size of a grain of rice that is inserted into the cochlea.