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Here (in Hungary) State sponsored implants still require proof of profound deafness, but the criteria is not complete deafness, but deafness when hearing aids do not improve hearing beyond a certain level. Since bilateral implants are discouraged–with improvement in technology we are saving the other ear for even better implants in the future–recently a few f children were fitted with digital hearing aids for the non-implanted ear. My son was one of them and while he doesn’t get enough input from that ear to understand speech, it has greatly helped him in findig his way and the direction of sound.