Choose your hearing aids

Choose Your Hearing Aids

Your new hearing aids are going to be an integral part of your life for the next three to seven years. To make a wise decision about what type of hearing aids to buy, you must be informed. This section will guide you to making a choice that will both satisfy you and meet your needs.

Should I get 1 or 2 hearing aids?
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Which kind of hearing aids should I get? (Click here)

-How many ears do you have?
-How many of those ears have a hearing loss that hearing aids can help?
-Do you want make the best use of your remaining hearing?
-Do you want to keep those parts of your brain that make sense of what you hear exercised?

If the answer to the first two questions is "2," and the answer to the second two questions is "YES," you need a hearing aid for each ear. (next)

We hear with the brain, not the ears. The brain is wired to receive input from both ears. Academic literature supports binaural ("two-eared") amplification. When you are using hearing aids on both ears,

You need less power

You get better understanding under more circumstances, especially in noise

You get much better depth perception, in both the horizontal and the vertical planes

You may be safer, because you will have a better idea of where warning sounds are coming from

You are enjoying better sound quality, giving yourself better life quality

In order to decide what hearing aid system is best for you, you must rank the following in order of importance:
Getting the Best Possible Hearing Benefit
Having Discreet, or Practically Invisible, Hearing Aids
Holding Costs Down

Read ALL 6 of the following choices, then click on the ONE statement that most accurately reflects your philosophy:

Hearing is most important, cost is least important.

Being discrete is most important, cost is least important.

I am on a very tight budget.

I am on a budget, but I do not want to compromise very much on the hearing benefit.

I am on a budget, but do not want to compromise very much on the hearing benefit. I also do not want anything that is very noticeable.

I want it all -- inexpensive, invisible hearing aids that give me the best possible hearing.

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