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| About Hearing Loss |
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| Hearing aids & you |
No two people have exactly the same hearing loss. But pioneering research and development in the hearing aid industry, with Siemens in the forefront, has led to the design of a very wide selection of technologically advanced hearing aids and other hearing support systems to help people meet the challenge. Approximately 10 percent of hearing losses may be helped medically. And the remaining 90 percent may benefit from hearing aids. Solutions well-matched to individual needs are now possible.
Hearing aids can help you reestablish connections to the world. They are made to selectively increase the volume of the sounds you want to hear. They can make soft sounds audible, while at the same time making moderate or loud sounds comfortable. Hearing aids are designed to provide relief in both noisy and quiet situations. Wearing hearing aids can put you at ease during conversations and make you less likely to have to ask others to repeat themselves.
No hearing aid can solve every hearing problem or restore normal hearing, but they are designed to provide amplification so that you can hear and understand better.
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| Hearing aid styles |
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| Hearing aid types: Digital or Conventional |
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After your hearing evaluation, your Hearing Health Care Professional will explain which hearing aids are the best match for your specific hearing loss and listening requirements. He or she will discuss your audiogram (the results of your hearing test) and the extent of your hearing loss and suggest what types of hearing aids are most appropriate for you according to your lifestyle, listening priorities and needs.
Today, hearing aids work with the help of two basic types of technology:
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Hearing aids with digital technology contain a very advanced degree of signal processing that can provide better accuracy, sound quality, perception of loudness and environmental noise reduction. Digital hearing aids can have many separate amplifier channels. Most digital models are programmed using computers and can offer a high degree of flexibility and precision.
- Analog hearing aids contain more basic technology with less flexibility and precision. But some are more advanced programmable models and remain effective in improving hearing and providing good sound quality at an affordable level comfortable for many patients.
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