| If you are surfing the web to get information | | | | *No custom ear molds required. |
| about hearing aids before you buy, you are | | | | |
| doing the right thing. The internet has | | | | Many of us can hear speech we but can't |
| begun to provide competition to an industry | | | | understand it. That's because the most |
| that has a unique and powerful hold over the | | | | common type of hearing loss is high frequency |
| sale of personal sound amplifying | | | | hearing loss. Which means you can hear low |
| instruments. More and more companies are | | | | frequency (bass) sounds quite well but will |
| offering hearing aids, assisted listening | | | | have trouble hearing the high frequency |
| devices, starter amplifiers and a variety of | | | | (treble) sounds. A high frequency hearing |
| other instruments. From the simple buy it | | | | loss is most commonly associated with aging, |
| direct on line to the more complicated three | | | | noise exposure and tinnitus. |
| or four step process; these buying | | | | |
| opportunities are helping a very large and | | | | Conventional hearing aids plug the ear, |
| growing market discover that hearing help can | | | | helping to amplify the needed high frequency |
| be affordable. | | | | sounds, however all sound has to pass through |
| | | | the device so all sounds are amplified. To |
| The hearing industry has been a highly | | | | compensate, these devices require individual |
| regulated industry for no apparent reason. | | | | testing, custom programming and custom |
| The rational and methods implemented to | | | | fitting to the wearer, making them expensive |
| maintain their hold on the dispensing of | | | | and often causing annoying side-effects such |
| hearing aids and thus control the cost is | | | | as, feedback, occlusion, discomfort and more. |
| beginning to erode. Like our eyes our ears | | | | |
| ability diminishes as we age. With the | | | | The common high frequency loss makes it |
| advent of advanced medical science we will | | | | difficult to hear soft voices and to discern |
| all live longer and better lives. But right | | | | the spoken consonants, therefore |
| now there are no pills for the eyes or ears. | | | | understanding what is being said is |
| Ready made eyeglass magnifiers have been | | | | troublesome normally, and becomes almost |
| available for many years. No exams, medical | | | | impossible when you are in noisy |
| waivers, fittings, and associated fees, they | | | | environments. Specifically designed to |
| are readily available and affordable. Senior | | | | increase amplification in the voice range |
| citizens thanks to new developments are now | | | | frequencies while minimizing the |
| able to easily purchase an affordable hearing | | | | amplification of background noise |
| aid and control their own volume. | | | | frequencies, the open ear style provides |
| | | | volume and clarity for increased speech |
| Leading the way the open ear style hearing | | | | recognition. Pre-programming the open ear to |
| aid (also called open fit) brings a very | | | | provide hearing help for the vast majority |
| effective and affordable solution to the 3rd | | | | and removing the expenses of testing, office |
| most common ailment of aging, (hearing loss | | | | visits, individual programming and custom |
| is only behind arthritis and hypertension). | | | | molds makes sense. |
| The open ear style is a very small, highly | | | | |
| sophisticated, 100% digital hearing device | | | | Anybody who is having hearing difficulty |
| that provides comfortable, clear and natural | | | | needs to see a medical doctor and find out if |
| sound quality while being nearly invisible | | | | simple amplification is appropriate for their |
| when worn, and it does not plug the ear. The | | | | condition, as you do with any ailment. |
| open ear style incorporates the best of | | | | Hearing aids are becoming available in two |
| amplification technology and universal fit | | | | categories: those that require a professional |
| components into an instrument designed to | | | | for programming or fitting (molds etc.), and |
| help you hear and understand speech. The open | | | | those hearing aids that do not need a |
| ear can also be manufactured and distributed | | | | professional for fitting. For the last |
| affordably. | | | | category, the open ear style will lead the |
| | | | way and become just like other items over the |
| The open ear style benefits: | | | | counter that do not require a professional or |
| | | | a prescription. |
| *No occlusion effect - the plugged sensation | | | | |
| of traditional hearing aids. | | | | The hearing industry argument that hearing |
| | | | amplification should not be readily available |
| *When you wear the open ear own voice sounds | | | | for health or safety issues holds no water. |
| natural. | | | | Has anyone ever died using a generic hearing |
| | | | device? IPOD users put plugs into their |
| *Most include advanced feedback cancellation | | | | ears, and the sounds they produce sometime |
| which helps eliminate the whistling that can | | | | exceed 120Db - a dangerous level. Open ear |
| occur with traditional hearing aids. | | | | hearing aids deserve the same uninhibited |
| | | | access by consumers. They will not work for |
| *Helps you hear and understand conversations | | | | everybody but will allow the majority of more |
| in noisy rooms and listen to the TV without | | | | than 25 million seniors that need hearing |
| disturbing others. | | | | help, but cannot afford it, an opportunity to |
| | | | improve their lifestyle. |
| *It is difficult for anyone to see the | | | | |
| device. | | | | They deserve it. |
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