FAQ & Links

You could be at risk if you work or spend a lot of time around noise without protecting your ears. Professions at risk may include: musicians, construction workers, military personnel, firefighters and police officers.

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Hearing loss can be caused by a number of factors – the aging process, heredity, disease, noise and build-up of earwax, among others.

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Yes, noise can be dangerous. If it is loud enough and lasts long enough, it can damage your hearing.

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If you experience a number of warning signs or if people often tell you that you’re not hearing well, you may have a hearing loss.

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The best thing to do is make an appointment for a hearing test with a hearing care professional. If you have a hearing loss your hearing care professional will advice you on your options for help.

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Your hearing care professional will ask you about your lifestyle and hearing needs. You will then be given a comprehensive hearing screening, a video ear exam and a word discrimination test. These will explain whether or not you have a hearing loss and will help direct what next steps need to be taken.

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Your hearing care professional will make the best recommendation for you based on your lifestyle, hearing loss and budget.

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The price of hearing instruments varies depending on style and technology selected.

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Yes. Most hearing care professionals offer you the opportunity to “test drive” a hearing aid to see what it sounds like in a variety of listening situations before you leave the office.

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Yes. Many of today’s instruments use features such as directionality and noise reduction to help you hear better in noisy environments.

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The Beltone Personal Wireless Network makes use of the 2.4 GHz wireless system: a provenmethod of wireless tranmission technology found in numerous products, such as wireless keyboards.

Now for the first time ever, it’s combined with hearing aids and accessoriess to create a personal wireless Network for you. You get sound transmitted from your TV, cell phone and other devices directly to your hearing aids. You can watch TV and converse with others comfortably at the sametime. It’s a whole new level of freedom, discretion and clarity.

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Digital hearing aids convert sound received by the hearing aid's microphone from an analog to a digital signal. This allows the hearing instrument to produce the exact requirements for a particular hearing loss; always keeping the loudness at a comfortable level. It also allows for advanced noise reduction features that distinguish between speech and non-speech signals and automatically decrease loudness of those non-speech signals, if needed.

Analog hearing aids, by contrast, are unable to automatically adjust for different loudness requirements outside of increasing or decreasing the volume control. As a result, many analog users complain of having to constantly adjust their volume controls in order to hear speech adequately in different environments.

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Open fit hearing aids are designed for cosmetic appeal, comfortable fit and natural sound quality. They do not give you a “plugged up” sensation or distort your own voice.

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