Hear Your Best with Advanced Bionics

“I chose AB because the upgradeability and technology were better than any other company.” —Alexandra Lewis, bilateral AB recipient 3

The Cernoseks AB Recipient Family 4

Hear Your Best Just as athletes train hard to achieve their best results, AB works harder to deliver performance to help you hear your best from moment to moment, every day. Selecting the right cochlear implant to go the distance with you or your child is a big decision. While the look of a cochlear implant system is important, when it comes to something as valuable as your ability to hear your best—as close to normal hearing as possible—there’s nothing more critical than reliability and performance. Choose Advanced Bionics to benefit from the only cochlear implant system that brings you the...

Number One in Total System Reliability When you choose AB, you’ll have peace of mind knowing that you or your child can count on your cochlear implant system every day for better hearing at work, school, or play. You will experience fewer interruptions in hearing because AB offers the highest Total System Reliability—the reliability of both the internal and external components combined. From your baby’s giggle to a cat’s purr, you won’t miss the special details of life when you choose the reliable AB cochlear implant system you can really depend on. + • Highest Internal Reliability 6 = #1 in...

Cole Burdett AB Recipient • Highest External Reliability Built to survive real-world conditions, including rain, perspiration, and moisture, AB sound processors are more than 99% reliable based on a three-month average failure rate of less than 1%8, which means that you will hear longer without interruption. AB reports and publicizes sound processor reliability data. Ask your audiologist about the external reliability rates of other cochlear implant manufacturers and how poor external reliability can impact your hearing experience. 7

Addison Blackmon AB Recipient Hear Your Best Today & Always Why Performance Matters Along with reliability, performance is the most important consideration when it comes to selecting the right cochlear implant for you or your child. As an adult recipient, you want to easily participate in the conversations that take place in noisy settings and on the telephone. You also want to hear all the details that make the world of sound so rich—the nuances of conversation, the complexities of a musical composition, and so much more. Children need to hear the words, inflections, and patterns essential for...

The World’s Best Hearing Performance Advanced Bionics offers the world’s most sophisticated technology to bring you clear, high-resolution sound in everyday settings like busy offices, noisy classrooms, and bustling restaurants. In fact, important comparative studies conducted by leading independent researchers show that AB surpasses other cochlear implant manufacturers with better hearing performance in real-world situations.1,2 Only AB delivers the best performance by offering the industry’s most advanced technology. No other cochlear implant manufacturer offers this technology. • learVoice*—AB’s...

It’s What’s Inside that Counts The size and outward appearance of your cochlear implant system will not help you or your child hear any better. To hear your best, you need what’s best on the inside. When you choose a cochlear implant system from AB, you benefit from superior internal technology now and external upgradeability for the future so that your hearing advances as the technology does—without the need for surgery. You can count on new innovations from AB to improve your quality of life. Actual size Every cochlear implant manufacturer is working on smaller sound processors, but AB is also...

Why the Technology Inside Matters It’s important to choose a cochlear implant system that offers the world’s most superior performance today and upgradeability for your hearing tomorrow. You can look forward to exciting innovations in sound processors from the exclusive synergies of AB and Phonak, the leader in miniaturized hearing instruments and FM technology. As AB’s processors get smaller, performance will not be comprised. A thin behind-the-ear processor that is thin on performance will not allow you to hear your best. CII BTE CII BTE Auria BTE Auria BTE HiRes 90K™ circuitry (shown above)...

AB Technology Surpasses the Competition Advanced Bionics has consistently made the industry’s leading technological hearing advancements, including superior temporal resolution, spectral resolution, dynamic range, and stimulation flexibility designed to be the most like normal hearing. AB’s HiResolution Bionic Ear System Cochlear’s Nucleus Freedom System Cochlear’s Nucleus 5 System Med-El’s Maestro System Why this Matters Up to 83,000 pps Up to 32,000 pps Up to 31,500 pps Up to 50,000 pps The faster the stimulation rate, the more accurate the timing of sound. Spectral Resolution Up to 120 Up...

AB’s implant delivers the industry’s greatest temporal resolution for hearing that is as close to normal as possible. AB stands apart with an unwavering commitment to developing top technology for superior hearing performance. When recipients hear their best, they often succeed in mainstream schools alongside normal-hearing peers, achieve important career goals, and build meaningful relationships with loved ones. 14

Einstein Would Choose AB for 163% greater resolution with AB’s advanced implant 83,000 pulses per second Advanced Bionics 50,000 pps Competitor B 31,500 pps Competitor A 15

Beethoven Would Choose AB for enjoying the full dimensions of music Loudness (Input Dynamic Range) Timing (Stimulation Rate) Simultaneous Current Steering 80 dB 120 83,000 pps Yes 55 dB 16 Pitch (Spectral Bands) 12 50,000 pps No 45 dB 22 31,500 pps No