 Imagine only being able to see with one eye, to see the world around you. It's like this for single-sided deafness, when you can only hear from one ear. You lose spatial hearing. However, with a cochlear implant, you can restore spatial hearing. And why is this important? Well, spatial hearing allows you to understand where sounds are coming from, allows you to hear speech and noise a lot better, and can do all of this with less listening effort. I think medel cochlear implants are the best option for single-sided deafness because we mimic natural hearing. When you have a normal hearing ear on one side that uses natural hearing and a medel cochlear implant on the other side that mimics natural hearing, having the two ears matched gives the brain the best ability to fuse that information for complete integration. This helps give and restore spatial hearing. Now how do we do this? With medel, we stimulate the full cochlea to give the closest to natural pitch perception. We also incorporate signal processing that mimics how the ear naturally processes loudness and timing information. So having all this together, that's why I think medel cochlear implants are the best option for single-sided deafness.