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Cochlear Bone Anchored Solutions is a company based in
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, Sweden that manufactures and distributes bone conduction hearing solutions under the trademark Baha. The company was founded in 1999 under the name Entific Medical Systems. When Cochlear bought the company in 2005, the name was changed to Cochlear Bone Anchored Solutions. The acronym "BAHA" (for
bone anchored hearing aid A bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA) is a type of hearing aid based on bone conduction. It is primarily suited for people who have conductive hearing losses, unilateral hearing loss, single-sided deafness and people with mixed hearing losses who c ...
) was trademarked into Baha, as it is not considered a hearing aid by insurance companies.


Baha system

The Baha system is a bone conduction hearing system designed, developed and marketed by Cochlear Bone Anchored Solutions. It is a semi-implantable, under the skin bone conduction hearing device coupled to the skull by a titanium fixture. The system transfers sound to the inner ear through the bone. Over 100,000 people have had the system implanted.


History

Professor
Per-Ingvar Brånemark Per-Ingvar Brånemark (3 May 1929 – 30 December 2014) was a Swedish physician and researcher, known as the "father of modern dental implantology". The ''Brånemark Osseointegration Center'' (BOC), named after its founder, was founded in 1989 i ...
discovered
osseointegration Osseointegration (from Latin " bony" and "to make whole") is the direct structural and functional connection between living bone and the surface of a load-bearing artificial implant ("load-bearing" as defined by Albrektsson et al. in 1981). ...
in the 1950s, which allows titanium implants to fuse with human bone. The discovery led to wide use in dental implants. In the mid-1970s, Brånemark, together with his ENT colleague Dr Anders Tjellström, glued an Oticon bone vibrator to a snap coupling fitted to a dental implant and then connected it to an audiometer. The patient reported a very high, clear sound, suggesting that the sound propagated through the bones of the maxilla to the inner ear. . Doctors
Anders Tjellström Anders is a male name in Scandinavian languages and Fering North Frisian, an equivalent of the Greek Andreas ("manly") and the English Andrew. It originated from Andres via metathesis. In Sweden, Anders has been one of the most common names fo ...
at
Sahlgrenska University Hospital The Sahlgrenska University Hospital () is a hospital network associated with the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden. With 17,000 employees the hospital is the largest hospital in Sweden by a considerable mar ...
in Gothenburg, Sweden, implanted and fitted the first patient with a Baha sound processor in 1977.


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Hearing aid manufacturers Medical technology companies of Sweden Companies based in Västra Götaland County