This is really cool and awesome for people with this condition!

Unfortunately, I have seen treatments arrive for almost every type of deafness except the one affecting me. I contracted the mumps at a very young age, approximately 5 months old, and I now have nerve deafness in one ear making me completely deaf in that ear. The ear drum still operates, as I feel pain in that ear when around extremely loud noises. I absolutely do not want a cochlear implant, so it seems I may be stuck like this for the rest of my life. :-(

Same situation here. I haven't looked at the state of the art in about 2 years, though. I was told that I was not a candidate for CI since the auditory nerve is damaged. What I found back them was some early research into cell transplantation as neural regenerative therapy, but there wasn't much activity that I could find.

Do you worry about having an increased risk of Alzheimers/Dementia?