Hearing Aids

Phonak hearing aids are gaining in popularity with many people because they effectively help make listening much easier for anyone that suffers many types of hearing problems. These hearing devices have many different options available for anyone that wants to use them to hear life around you again.

Some of the different options that are available include:

- Sound recover: This remarkable breakthrough allows people with significant high-frequency hearing loss to hear speech sounds that they haven’t heard in a long time.

- Echo Block: Allows people to hear more clearly in a reverberant (echo-y) environment. This is the only time-altering algorithm (plan of operation) in the hearing aid industry.

-Automatic Program Switching (“autopilot”): Adjusts the volume, level of sound reduction and directionality automatically, within milliseconds.

There are two different styles of hearing aids that you can also find different options for. The two styles are:

- BTE: This style stands for “behind the ear” and is good for anyone with mild to severe hearing issues. BTEs may be tiny or standard sized.

- ITE: This stands for “in the ear” hearing device, and was developed in the 1980s. People sometimes choose this type for cosmetic reasons.

The different features present in Phonak hearing aids and the different styles are really important to consider when choosing hearing devices because they allow almost anyone with a hearing loss to have significant increase in the quality of their life.

You should go to an audiologist to help you determine exactly what degree of hearing loss you have so you can make the smartest choice possible.

Audiologists can provide you with important information that could aid your decision on what type of hearing aid to get from Phonak.

I can’t stress enough that an educated patient is the best patient—you should not choose any type of hearing aid without first getting a hearing test done and doing your homework about what is available. Hearing aids are major purchases and a good audiologist can help you become better informed so that you will be able to find the right type for you for the best price possible to fit your budget.

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Peggy Hutchison
Margaret was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Human Development and Communication Disorders from the University of Texas at Dallas in 1996. She has a number of publications and presentations, including “Auditory Temporal Integration and the Power Function Model” in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (1990) and “Hearing-Impaired Theater-goers Experience Direct Sound Input” in Hearing Instruments (1993).

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Is it true that a hearing aid should be preferably worn on the better ear?

I have moderate to severe hearing loss in my right ear. My hearing loss in my left ear is not much, though I have difficulty in hearing high frequency sounds through my left ear. I wanted to go for a hearing aid for my right ear. The people in the hearing aid center want me to go for the left ear first and then only for the right ear. I do not want to wear this instrument in both my ears. What should I do?

Answer
Firstly, I think you should see an audiologist, a lot of ear centers that just dispense hearing aids aren’t really qualified to determine what ear, etc. An audiologist will give you better service and be able to help you make the decision, they’re also a lot better about customer service. Hearing aids are generally worn in the worse ear unless the ear is unaidable for some reason. I don’t know your history, but if you have substantially more loss in one ear than the other your center should have referred you to a neurologist, as that can be a sign of an 8th nerve tumor. Hopefully, your uneven loss is explainable (you shoot guns a lot on that side, etc). If it is, I would aid the worse ear, especially since not aiding it can cause your hearing to worsen, but that also goes for your other ear, so you really should consider two hearing aids. The behind the ear models are really tiny and totally unnoticeable now and you won’t have to deal with an earmold which can cause wax build-up and ear infections, check out Oticon Deltas. Moderate to severe is a huge range and some severe to profound losses are difficult to aid, your center may also be worried you won’t be happy with the results from aiding your poorer ear, again, an audiologist would explain this to you. Ideally, you should get two aids to preserve the hearing you have in both ears, if not, I guess you’ll have to choose which is worse, slowly becoming completely deaf in your poor ear, or gradually losing more hearing in your better ear until you have to aid that, too. Good luck and feel free to contact me with specific questions!