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PUMS Department of Otolaryngology and Laryngological Oncology performed its first cochlear implant surgeries using a surgical robot.

These are first in the country procedures where the implant’s electrode is inserted into the cochlea by means of a surgical robot called Robotol. The surgery was performed by Assoc. Prof. Wojciech Gawęcki, dr. Andrzej Balcerowiak, and dr. Piotr Dąbrowski.
This innovative method, unknown in Poland so far, allows for absolute precision and atraumatic insertion of the electrode. It is essential when the loss of hearing is not complete, but the hearing is already socially inefficient.