What is Treament

Hearing loss treatment

Similar to your orthodontist, dentist, or physical therapist guiding you through your treatment and expecting you to follow it, we prescribe the treatment for your hearing loss and expect you to follow our recommendations.

You don’t just buy braces at the orthodontist’s office. The orthodontist uses braces for long-term treatment of crooked teeth, overbites, spaces between teeth, temporomandibular disorders (TMD), etc.

Simply purchasing a set of hearing aids based on traditional pure-tone and speech-in-silence tests is not treatment; it is called shopping. It won’t solve your problems with hearing loss.

Hearing loss is a physiological change in the entire auditory system:

• Hearing cells might be dead, creating a dead zone.
• Chemical fluid around hearing cells can prompt changes.
• Membranes in the cochlea may be worn out.
• Poor blood circulation and lack of oxygen can affect the rapid movement of hearing cells.
• An undeveloped cochlea doesn’t function efficiently.
• A lost connection between hair cells and the nerves carrying information to the brain can cause zero brain stimulation.⁷

We determine whether you have any hearing loss, what type of hearing loss it is, the frequencies that are affected, and whether the hearing loss is present in one or both ears.

We will test to determine how well speech is received or understood.

You need to undergo auditory learning, listening to many new sounds, accepting them, and eventually your brain will learn how to separate consonants from noise. To fully benefit from your hearing aids, you must wear them all day, every day.

While you undergo the adaptation process, we will gradually increase the amount of gain until we reach the targets. This will help your brain slowly adapt to the loudness of the environment.

We will support and counsel you for as long as you need to achieve your goals.

We encourage you to inform us whether the hearing aid fitting is beneficial for you, so we can continue to improve the results every day.