Father Love: Dad Got A Cochlear Implant Tattoo In The Relief Of His Hearing Impaired Daughter.

The six-year-old suffers from extreme hearing loss and received her first implant when she was four-years-old after doctors found she was deaf in her left ear. She has just had the second one set in, and the implants have dramatically assumed her confidence levels.

The hardcore dad chose to take the extra step to help his daughter, Charlotte, feel better about her cochlear implants by getting one tattooed on his head, so she wouldn't feel different. He saved his head to get the artwork done but said he would let it grow out again unless Charlotte wanted to see it.

The cochlear implant is one surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person beside moderate to profound sensorineural hearing loss. These implants bypass the normal acoustic hearing process, instead of replacing it with electric signals which directly stimulate the auditory nerve. 

The outside component is generally worn behind the ear, but could also be attached to clothing, for example, in young children. This component, the sound processor, contains microphones, electronics that include DSP chips, battery, and a coil which transmits a digitally-coded sound to the implant across the skin.

The inside component, the actual implant, converts the digitally-coded sound, not electrical signals, and sends them along with the electrode array which is positioned in the cochlea it was the inner ear. The implant electrodes stimulate the cochlea's hearing nerve fibres, which relay the sound signals to the brain to produce hearing sensations.