Juichi Ito
Editor

2014

Inner ear diseases such as sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), tinnitus, and dizziness are very difficult to treat, especially in cases with highly severe hearing disturbance.
While the use of cochlear implants in profoundly deaf patients has been encouragingly useful, further improvement in the efficacy of this device is desirable. Recently, regenerative medicine has made great progress in application; however, clinical applications of regenerative medicine in the field of otolaryngology are limited as yet.