Have You Heard? This Tiny Device Gives People Their Hearing Back

A new and revolutionary apparatus the size of a dime can help millions of Americans regain their hearing without going under the knife.

“Earlens offers the world’s first and only FDA approved non-surgical lens that directly vibrates the eardrum without a speaker,” says Dr. Seth Oringher, an ear, nose and throat specialist with Feldman ENT Division in Chevy Chase, Maryland. “So, you really get a much richer, much clearer, more natural sound, and that’s really what’s been a game changer.”

It only takes two visits to have a highly functioning device. The first visit is to make a mold of the ear, including the eardrum, and the second one, to place the tiny lens into the eardrum. The settings can be adjusted with an iPhone. Thanks to the Earlens device, the 48 million hearing-impaired Americans can “swim, they can bathe, they can shower. The lens can stay in potentially for years without having to be removed.”