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I lost the hearing in one ear in a car accident when I was a kid (nerve damage) - I keep hoping that these advances will allow me to regrow my eardrum some day.
by commandlinefan 8y ago
I lost the hearing in one ear in a car accident when I was a kid (nerve damage) - I keep hoping that these advances will allow me to regrow my eardrum some day.
- aaavl2821 8y agoThere are two companies working on regenerative medicine and gene therapy to preserve and restore hearing: Akouos and decibel therapeutics. Not sure if they're working on stuff related to your condition but there's a lot of money behind the research and it seems promising
- magnetic 8y agoIs there no option to rebuild an artificial ear drum? Is your ossicular chain also shot? Regrowing your ear drum is not going to resolve nerve damage, though: it'll deal with conductive hearing, not sensorineural. I'm sure you know this already. As someone who is losing hearing due to a degenerative disease, I am sympathetic. The worse part of it for me is the severe tinnitus that came along for the ride. It is challenging in so many different ways, not the least of which is that it is completely invisible from the rest of the world.