Patient Resources
Guidelines for Cleaning Your Hearing Aids
You made a wise investment in your health when you decided to get hearing aids. It's important to protect your investment by cleaning your hearing aids regularly. Devices that aren't cleaned regularly are more likely to become in need of repair. Also,...
Why Are Hearing Aids Expensive?
It is no secret that hearing aids are expensive. My patients remind me of that on a regular basis, but because the cost of hearing loss is significantly higher, I like to help them weigh the benefits of hearing aids against their cost. It also helps to point out that...
A Basic Guide to the Most Common Types of Hearing Loss
Part of what I do as a doctor of audiology is to determine which form of hearing loss my patients have. Identifying the various types, through various kinds of assessments and examinations, allows me to determine the proper course of therapy or assistive listening...
Troubleshooting Tips for Common Hearing Aid Problems
Hearing aids allow my patients to return to their normal lifestyles or a higher quality of living. Unfortunately, a major challenge as an audiologist is motivating those who have hearing aids to stick with them and receive the hearing assistance they need. Many...
What Is Tinnitus and What Can You Do About It?
Buzzing, whistling, ringing, or hissing are common descriptions my patients use to describe the symptoms most often associated with tinnitus. I see a broad range of instances of tinnitus in intermittent, constant, and fluctuant forms from mild to severe, and from low...
Hearing Aids Styles and Types: You Really Do Have a Choice
I can only imagine what goes through the minds of my patients whenever I recommend that they need hearing aids. They probably envision those weighty, old-school things, sort of like first-generation cell phones, fixed to their ears with the thick tube and bulking...
Audiologist vs. Hearing Aid Dispenser: What’s the Difference?
If you owned a BMW, would you have it serviced by some cheap garage behind some warehouse in a seedy part of town or by a BMW certified service center? Because you understand that the certified service center has the unique qualifications to provide the very best care...