Hearing Aids

More than 90 percent of individuals with hearing loss can be helped with hearing instruments. The degree of success, however, is determined not only by the severity and type of hearing loss, but also by the patient's motivation.

A hearing aid requires several weeks of adjustment. During this time, you will meet with your audiologist to ensure that they are helping you.

While a hearing aid will not eliminate all of the problems that hearing loss creates or bring back “normal” hearing, but it will help reduce communication difficulties.

For many people, the only way to improve hearing is with amplification.

Hearing aid benefits

Research has shown that most people with hearing loss in both ears will benefit from wearing hearing aids in both ears. It provides fuller sound quality while making it easier to localize the source of sounds. 

It helps improve speech understanding in background noise and volumes can be set lower to allow for a more natural sound quality.

There are a variety of styles and technologies designed to improve hearing ability.

Choosing a hearing aid

By working with your audiologist, you can choose a hearing aid that works with your degree of hearing loss, your lifestyle and your hearing needs. We use different aspects of your lifestyle to help determine the right hearing instrument for you.

The degree of hearing loss is the first measure that is used to indicate the style of hearing instrument that is recommended. There are several styles of hearing aids that fit entirely in the ear. 

These hearing aids are fit to each individual, based on an impression of the wearer’s ear that is taken at the time a hearing aid is ordered.