**6. Conclusions**

Limited audibility and atypical hearing experience affects listening skills; good contralateral hearing is not enough to promote normal auditory, linguistic, and cognitive development.

It is accepted that the majority of children with acquired unilateral hearing loss who receive CI as treatment have better performance in hearing and speech performance than those with a no cochlear implant; the lower the age of implantation, the better their performance; and congenital children must be more evaluated in more multicenter studies to clarify the long-term results.

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**Author details**

*Cochlear Implant in Single-Sided Deafness Children and Adults*

fMRI functional magnetic resonance studies

Ángel Ramos Macías1,2, Silvia A. Borkoski Barreiro1,2\*, Juan Carlos Falcón González1,2 and Ángel Ramos de Miguel1,2

Las Palmas University (ULPGC), Las Palmas, Spain

provided the original work is properly cited.

\*Address all correspondence to: silviaborkoski@hotmail.com

1 Department of Otolaryngology Head Neck Surgery, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular Materno Infantil de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

2 Department of Otolaryngology, Psychoacoustic and Balance Laboratory,

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*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.87979*

SSD single-sided deafness

CI cochlear implant UHL unilateral hearing loss

QoL quality of life EKG electrocardiogram

**Nomenclature**

dB decibels

The CI in adults with SSD and severe tinnitus is a valid and effective therapy when other treatments have failed.

## **Conflict of interest**

None declared.

*Cochlear Implant in Single-Sided Deafness Children and Adults DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.87979*
