And to attain this end, we have the light called conscience that God has
implanted in our souls.
We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manners and customs which long usage has
implanted ineradicably within us.
William House developed the device in the 1960s at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles and successfully
implanted them in adults.
to receive a cochlear implant with a percutaneous plug was
implanted in July at Duke University.
Twenty five years later, science-fiction-fantasy is reality every day as artificial hearts and lungs are joining surgically
implanted hip, knee and shoulder prostheses to augment nature's work and fix our broken bodies.
Or, the body creates a capsule of tissue around the
implanted materials.
If that happens, a new device can usually be
implanted after the infection has completely cleared.
5 million medical devices are
implanted in Americans each year.
Four manufacturers were successful in persuading the FDA of this substantial equivalence, and, as a result, more than one million women have been
implanted with the 510K devices.
To date more than 9,000 patients have been successfully
implanted with Clearant Process sterile implants supplied by one of the Company's licensed partners.
The headpiece sends radio waves to the CII Bionic Ear, below, which is
implanted under the skin.
A Nucleus 22-channel device was
implanted in the left ear.
Unlike other groups, the German researchers are designing their device to be
implanted within the retina, where the rods and cones normally reside, rather than on its front surface.
Before, the
implanted device was supplemented with a headpiece and cable that were attached to the sound processor - a pagerlike device that clipped onto the waist or pocket.
In those studies, 23 percent of female rats
implanted with silicone developed cancer.