When you feel difficulty in understanding in noisy environment or if you are missing some words while conversation or if you need to rise TV volume, then it is time to consult ENT doctor, get checked for hearing. Reasons could be as simple as -wax accumulation in ear, or sometimes it is complex like brain tumor. ENT specialist suggests you to go for audiometry test and based on this doctor identify nature of hearing loss whether it is conductive or sensorineural or mixed. One may need further tests like CT scan, MRI for arrive correct diagnosis apart from audiometry test.
Depends on the nature of hearing loss, one may need hearing aid or surgery. Conductive deafness can be cured with surgery. Sensorineural deafness can be helped with Hearing aids. Congenital deafness with sever sensorineural hearing loss with speech delay in children need cochlear implant.
Digital programmable hearing aids use digitized sound processing. DSP changes sound waves into digital signals. The computer chip in the aid decides if a sound is noise or speech. It then makes changes to the aid to give you a clear, loud signal.
Digital hearing aids adjust themselves. These types of aids can change sounds to meet your needs.
The features of Digital programmable hearing aids are
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Hearing aids work by amplifying sound through 3 part system.Microphone receives sound and converts it into digital signal.Amplifier increases the strength of that digital signal.The speaker produces amplified sound into ear.
People with normal hearing can hear sounds less than 25 dB,even whisper sounds.If your loved one asks frequently to repeat what you say,having difficulty understanding on the telephone,difficulty understanding during group conversations,unable to follow when there is background noise,you may suspect difficulty in hearing.
Usually digital hearing aids starts from Rs.8000 onwards to Rs.200000 for each hearing aid ,depending on level of technology,number of channels ,blue tooth compatibility,reachable battery type etc.
There are five styles of hearing aids available,which one is best suits you depends on your needs ,audio gram and hearing loss,where our audiologist guides you inbetter way.The six styles are Behind-The-Ear(BTE),Receiver -In-canal(RIC),Completely-In-Canal(CIC),In-the-Canal(ITC),Invisible (IIC).
Modern hearing aids works well for on average between three and seven years without any major repair.They have minimum 2 years of manufacture warranty through world wide.
Hearing with only hearing aid won’t give desired benefit because our body accoustemed to hear from both ears. Our brain interprets hearing well when sound signal comes from both sides. Work of listening increased if one uses single hearing aid.