Three misunderstandings in hearing aid matching

Mistake 1: after the hearing aid is paid, it’s finished. According to the habit of regular shopping, you can hand in the money and deliver the goods at the same time, and the transaction is completed. Therefore, whether it is the customer or the fitting inspector, there will be such a misunderstanding that the transaction will be completed after the payment. This is not the case. Hearing aids are not ordinary daily necessities. They don’t look like they will be finished after buying clothes. Hearing aids are two kinds of medical devices. The fitting of hearing aids is not an overnight task, but a gradual process of hearing rehabilitation learning. After the client put on the hearing aid, the work of the fitting examiner has just begun. The job of the fitting inspector is not a salesman, but a person who relies on professional technology to do a good job in service. In short, this is the first time that the fitting engineer has adjusted the hearing aid for the client according to the listening chart. Sometimes, the first fitting can not fully meet the hearing requirements of the customer, because the customer is not a machine but a person, he gets more sounds that he could not hear before through the hearing aid, so the customer needs a gradual learning and adaptation process. Especially for customers who have never worn hearing aids, it’s like waking up in the morning and not looking directly at the light bulb. It takes a long time to rub their eyes. What’s more, they just sleep all night. Hearing rehabilitation requires good communication and mutual trust between the client and the match maker, so as to ensure that the client can get a good hearing effect.

Myth 2: I can still hear it now. When I can’t hear it, I will go to work with some hearing impaired patients. After consulting the hearing situation of the match maker, I will know the price of the hearing aid first by the way. The price of hearing aids is often tens of thousands, especially for the elderly. The old people who have survived the hard life are not willing to spend so much money for themselves and add burden to their children. Especially the patients with mild to moderate hearing impairment will say: “I can hear it louder now, and I’ll match it when I can’t hear it.” In fact, this is totally wrong!

The damage degree of the ear’s auditory system can be divided into four levels: mild, moderate, severe and extremely severe. The more serious the hearing loss, the lower the hearing resolution of the patients, and the different effect of hearing aid. According to the patient, it may cause more money to be spent when they can’t hear it, and it may not achieve the effect of matching hearing aids now. It’s more likely that there won’t be a hearing aid at all. And this kind of hearing damage is irreversible. A minor illness does not cure, but a serious illness becomes a disease. Therefore, if hearing loss affects your normal life, you should take measures as soon as possible, and never wait.

Mistake 3: one ear can hear sound, one side of hearing aid is enough. In order to save money, some customers with hearing loss are willing to choose one side of hearing aid. In quiet environment, the effect difference between wearing one side and wearing two ears is not obvious, but with the hearing adaptation and the change of environment, many problems will arise. Because even if it is normal hearing, it will be very difficult to use single ear hearing in noisy environment, and double ear listening will be much easier. Because binaural listening, not only noise reduction and anti-interference, but also binaural accumulation and binaural balance. Therefore, it is necessary to wear both ears when communicating in noisy environment. In addition, the wearing of both ears can prevent the effect of hearing deprivation. In the theory of biological evolution, there is a point of view that the multi-use of acoustic organs can make organ functions more flexible, and without it, it will gradually degrade until it loses its function. Patients with hearing loss in both ears, if they only choose to wear one ear hearing aid, the ability of the hearing center of the ears without hearing aid to understand the language will gradually decline. In audiology, this phenomenon is called progressive (delayed) auditory deprivation effect, and the longer the time is, the more serious it is. Therefore, it is suggested that the patients with hearing loss of both ears, the best choice of binaural fitting. On the one hand, it can obtain good hearing effects in various natural environments; on the other hand, it can prevent the effects of hearing deprivation.

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