Hi, I am new here, and just looking around, but your post caught my eye, errr, maybe that should be "my EAR!"
Well, I've heard of the procedure that the person mentioned about the "Vibrant Soundbridge", not sure if it has other names or not, but be aware that this procedure will only work IF you have healthy hair fibers (cilia) left in your ears. You don't say what the cause of your deafness is, but if there are no working fibers (or very few), then this procedure will not work. But, there is also a procedure that sort of replaces the hair fibers, called a cochlear implant. Many people have had very good results with these, and I know several people who have had them done, and all of them I know personally have had great results. But, all the people I know gradually lost their hearing, so learned to speak and heard sounds in the past. There are people who never heard before, and they do have some success, some do much better than others, some are able to understand voices, etc. The ones that I know are able to talk on the phone, with the exception of one, who probably "could" but is just too nervous to do so
. Anyway, you could do a search on the cochlear implants, and see if this sounds like something you'd be interested in or not. I can tell you that there are three companies that make these devices at the present time, and that they all have fairly equal good results. For these to work, you do need a healthy auditory nerve, but the cilia fibers do not need to be working or healthy. I hope this helps you some, and if you want more information, I can tell you a lot about them, as four people in my family have had this done, and I know several other family's where one, two, or three members have had it done.
Best of luck,
TimeForAChange
Re: Are there surgeries for the deaf to hear? 
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