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Introduction For almost 50 years cochlea implants have been the last chance for patients with profound hearing loss or deafness. Early implantation of children with congenital deafness or prelingual deafness have made language acquisition possible. Worldwide there are approximately 800000 patients with at least one CI, around 10% of those patients live in Germany.
Schmitt et al. (Fri,) studied this question.