Hear In Private Practice

I believe that you should make a “spare” set of earmolds for every one of your patients with significant hearing loss. The wisdom of this advice may not be evident, so let me elaborate. Hearing aid technology is complex. However, few hearing aid users understand this complexity until they have worn hearing aids for a number of years. Unlike other

Our Editor of @Hear the Music, Marshall Chasin is writing a monthly column in The Hearing Review.  With permission we will be posting Dr. Chasin’s  articles in our @HearingHealth section. The science of flared or belled tubing is something that many of us were more aware of in the 1980s than we are today.  In the 1980s, because of the

The longer I practice audiology, the more I appreciate the application of light. I’ll explain. We use light to look into ears and hearing aids, and the quality of the light can greatly affect the quality of our inspection. I recently replaced the old desk light that was located directly above my “grinding machine.” The new light is one of

Single Sided Deafness (SSD) refers to significant and usually permanent hearing loss in one ear. It is thought to affect at least 9,000 new people in the USA each year. Its most common cause is sudden deafness, which overwhelmingly results in SSD rather than bilateral deafness. Acoustic neuroma – a slow growing benign tumour of the auditory nerve – is

Let me ask you a question.  As a hearing health care professional, when you send a new CIC (completely-in-the-canal) hearing aid to the factory for repair, do you check it when it comes back? And if you find that it’s ‘dead’, what do you do?  Be careful how you answer; you may be surprised. This happened to me twice recently. The

By: Jennifer Lamfers, AuD We all know that turning the volume up too high or standing too close to speakers is going to permanently damage our hearing and once ringing occurs or we experience a sudden decrease in hearing, there is permanent damage. That is true. But what if that reaction is also partly protective? A study in Australia shows

I have a Standard Operational Procedure (SOP) that I try to use every time I see a patient. This SOP can be described simply as: look in the ear, look in the hearing aid, measure the amplification, check to be sure the amplification is providing good hearing, and listen to–and solve–any problems the patient may have. In a future article

By: Diana Holan, MS   Inkjet printers use multiple ink cartridges to layer out an image on paper. In the 1980s, 3D printers were developed from the same concept, except the cartridges are filled with various materials that merge together in layers onto a flat surface, guided by a computer generated pattern that actually builds a 3D item in the

At times hearing aids make an ear-splitting screech that will drive most people crazy. This horrific noise, called feedback, occurs in all audio systems, including public address systems. In the hearing care profession, we have been fighting the feedback “monster” for many years. Possibly you may have heard that the incredible improvements in digital processing have eliminated feedback from hearing

In HHMT blogs we have covered hearing loss associated with Cardiovascular disease , diabetes and a variety of other conditions.  This week we focus on a study published in June in The American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society, Inc which links Childhood Obesity and sensorineural hearing loss in adolescents. First, how is Obesity defined?  The Body Mass Index (BMI) is