It certainly does!
How about this, also?
Transplantation is usually done to save a life or to vastly improve a person's life from a devestating injury. I just don't see where cochlear transplantation would be done any time soon given the life changing nature of having a transplant.
Having a transplant generally exchanges one set of problems for another. It's not a walk in the park by any means. Once a transplant occurs, you risk rejection (which almost always happens) and you have to take extremely powerful meds to keep that rejection at bay. Transplantation is NOT the panacea some people may think it is.
Also, organs are usually very hard to come by. Not everyone donates their organs after death. So, would someone want to possibly wait YEARS for a transplant, risk rejection for the rest of their life, take meds for the rest of their life; when there are ways to mitigate a hearing loss without having to go through all that NOW?
I can tell you if I lost my hearing, I certainly wouldn't!
