| 1- Can a hearing aid restore my hearing? |
| No hearing aid cannot restore your hearing to normal. An
efficient hearing aid will help you to understand speech, to hear surrounding
sounds that you could not hear without it and prevent sounds from being
uncomfortably loud for you. |
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| 2- Are all hearing aids alike? and what can an advanced
hearing aid do? |
| Not all hearing aids are alike. Cheap hearing aids will make
everything louder including surrounding noises and could worsen your capacity
to understand human voices and to communicate with other people in situations
where you need them most. Digital hearing aids can differentiate between human
voices and surrounding noises by dividing the hearing spectrum into channels.
The more channels in a hearing aid, the better your hearing intelligibility
will be. Advanced hearing aids are able to eliminate feedback (whistling of the
hearing aid), to help you listen better in a noisy environment. They will
provide you with a comfortable near to natural sound, even better some will
wirelessly connect to TV's and mobile phones. This applies to very small and
invisible hearing aids. |
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| 3- What type of hearing aid is best for me? |
| The choice of a hearing aid will depend on the type and the
degree of hearing loss. Also the life style and the general health condition of
the wearer are key factors in determining the type of hearing aid. The milder
the hearing loss, the better the health condition, the easier to fit small and
even invisible hearing aids. |
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| 4- In which aspect a hearing aid can improve my quality of
life? |
Hearing aids play a key role in improving:
- Communication between the patient and his family members
- Stimulate and protects the patient's mental capacities from degrading
- Participate in the psychological stability of the patient
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| 5- Will you need to wear a hearing aid in both ears? |
| If your hearing loss affects both ears (which is the case in
most hearing losses) a binaural (two hearing aids fitting) will help you to
locate the direction the sound is coming from, this is crucial in situations
like crossing streets, driving cars and emergency situations needing
spontaneous reactions. Patients with a binaural fitting express higher levels
of comfort with hearing aids. |
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