The first clinical trial of a permanently implanted retinal prosthesis was a device with a passive microphotodiode array with 3500 elements.

This was the situation with the first patient treated with a permanently implanted artificial heart.

These thin lenses are implanted permanently into the eye to help reduce the need for glasses or contact lenses.

The study proved that assist devices, originally meant just to keep a patient live until a heart transplant could be done, can be implanted permanently.

Cardiac Pacemakers: Small and battery-powered, pacemakers are implanted permanently into the body.

Kofi Annan said this about it: "Business and human rights challenges became permanently implanted on the global policy agenda twenty years ago.

In one form of radiation, doctors use needles for permanently implanting radioactive "seeds" into the prostate.

The operation was conducted in secret, done in two stages with the artificial lens permanently implanted three months later.

It is the most bio-accepted coating for stents, defibrillators, pacemakers and other devices permanently implanted into the body.