Comments on Profile Post by Apolonia

Maybe. It is for noise damage, but tinnitus is a brain problem so it may not fix tinnitus. That's the most straightforward answer anyone here can give.

although I would like to believe in hair cells restoration, I am just becoming more and more pessimistic. I don't think this is possible. Even if they manage to restore hair cells, they won't be the same as the first ones. Sometimes, technology (hearing aids) is our only option.

They will definitely be able to make ear cells at least as good as the originals. The question is when. I say by the end of the century.

it is really hard to predict. Who knows what is really going on. I have been reading so much experiments that were done in 2009 on Pubmed (I think) . And all of these experiments are successful on mice and hamsters. Then I ask myself why these things are not on the market already or promoted among doctors?

But doctors still tell us that there is nothing we can do about our damage and just live with it

Yeah you know that's a damn good question. It's because of testing. From what I heard a good metric with experimental medicine is that it takes 20 years to go from print-to-practice, meaning if you hear about it today, it will be in hospitals in 20 years assuming it works.

This really sucks -.-'

I now have full confidence that we will have at least a treatment by 2020. If you asked me this two months ago I would have said absolutely not. Things are moving suprisingly quickly now.

Well, I hope this treatment will be more than just a brain therapy.. I believe in the power of chemical things injected into the ear. So, I hope something like that comes out by 2020 at least for the acute damage so that people can get proper treatment on time.