Any sound that’s too loud can damage your hearing permanently. The more intense or loud the noise is, the faster damage occurs. This is commonly referred to as noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL), and it’s an everyday occurrence in our modern world. The longer the noise...
Now this is a question I literally get every single day. People are always wanting to know what the best size hearing aid is. I’ll hear things like, “Well my friend has the over-the-ear kind, and is pretty happy. But I really want something that nobody can see.”...
We know, this sounds like it would be something that rarely happens. While we certainly wouldn’t call it an everyday occurrence, it does happen more than one might think. From bugs to buttons, to Tic Tacs, to any number of other things—gross and otherwise—getting...
Those of you who have hearing aids are very likely familiar with wax filters or wax guards. For those of you who don’t know, a wax filter is a very small piece of plastic that’s inserted into the speaker of a hearing aid. The goal of the wax filter is to...
One of the things I seem to hear more often than not, especially from proponents of Over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids, is that they are for “perceived mild to moderate hearing loss”, which seems to completely discount the need for a full diagnostic hearing...
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