Auriculostomy – First Surgical Hearing Aid Approach
This post provides an historical archive to the application of hearing aids. The auriculostomy may have been the first surgical hearing aid involvement in the fitting of amplification in that it provided an alternate approach to the application of corrective amplification involving ear-level hearing aids1. This was in 1975. It was an invention of Charles…
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The Mafia, Whitey Bulger, and the Hearing Aid Industry: What Is the Connection? The story related here is true, but is a story with no happiness to it. This might seem a rather strange post for an Internet site devoted to issues related to hearing. However, one of the purposes of HHTM is to leave a record…
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