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Hearing preservation is possible using soft surgical techniques and electrode arrays designed to minimize cochlear trauma; however, a subset of patients suffer from partial to total loss of acoustic hearing months to years following surgery despite evidence of residual apical hair cell function. Early investigations in robotic-assisted insertion and dexamethasone-eluting implants show promise.
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