Hearing assessme ...

The whole point to a hearing test is for the audiologist to determine the extent of your hearing loss and the type of hearing loss you have. The extent of your hearing loss is determined by decibels based ...

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Menieres disease

Menieres disease affects the inner ear and no one knows the exact cause of the disease but it does affect the fluid in the canals of the inner ear. Menieres disease is termed a chromic illness which means ...

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Otosclerosis

Otosclerosis usually occurs in people during their teens or early years and causes ear bone degeneration, the sound conducting bones of the ear will start to change in consistency from hard bone to soft bone tissue. This degeneration ...

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Posts Tagged ‘digital hearing aids’

Hearing aids have advanced greatly over the last few years in both look and technology with digital hearing aids now almost making the analogue type virtually extinct. There are many different types to choose from and they vary greatly in price with the more advanced ones costing thousands of pounds.

Behind the ear hearing aids

This type will normally sit behind the ear and have an ear mould which fits inside your ear, they are connected by a plastic tube. This is a very common type of hearing aid and the one which is widely used and available on the NHS. For those people who have only very mild hearing loss there is a newer version of the behind the ear hearing aid called an open ear fitting and they use a small earpiece instead of the ear mould.

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