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If the hearing has already suffered so much that ENT doctor, and then audiologist or audiologist advised to equip the ear hearing aid, doctors are often faced with the stubbornness of patients, many of whom prefer to put up with hearing loss than wear a device

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Specialists such an attitude to hearing nothing but grief, does not matter. If time does not pass the hearing aid, hearing analyzer losing our skill. The cerebral cortex seems to forget how to "look" sounds. When the man finally wears a hearing aid, sounds become for him unusual, uncomfortable, it is difficult to isolate it from the surrounding noise, it is difficult to adapt to the machine.

Also today they are so tiny model that others can not guess that the conversation with the person wearing the hearing aid. You can hide and behind the ear and in the ear.

And digital technology, which are used in the processing of sound in modern models of the device, making it instantly - in performance can be compared with computer processors «Pentium-III» in the size of the microchip 3 × 3 mm! Some models in its parameters even surpassed possibilities of the human ear: the device itself automatically mutes very loud sound and increases is too quiet, it highlights from the noise, directional microphone that picks of the interlocutors to whom you just turned his head. And to twist the "wheel" smart device, you do not have to - computer setting, serving electronic "screwdriver", will make it myself.

Measurable hearing

But before addressing the question of the need hearing aids need to be diagnosed in surdotsentre on special equipment. Identify hearing loss by using the following methods:

Audiometry   - The most simple and affordable study estimates the amount of hearing loss with special headphones, in which sound signals of varying intensity and frequency.

Impedance   (tympanometry) to determine abnormalities in the middle ear. This method evaluated the mobility of the tympanic membrane and eliminated the presence of fluid in the middle ear.

Otoacoustic emission   to assess the condition of the hair cells, that is diagnose function of the cochlea of ​​the inner ear.

Measurement of the electrical activity of the brain in response to the sound signals. Register induced electrical brain potentials to determine the presence of lesions of the auditory nerve or brain.

Check your hearing, which may be reduced gradually and imperceptibly, and you can own. Make sure if you have a hearing problem, you can help simple test.

1. Does it happen that you do not hear a knock at the door or the phone rings?
2. How often do you talk surrounding asked quietly?
3. difficult for you to hear the person on the street?
4. Do your homework complain that you turn on the television too loud?
5. Do you experience difficulty when talking on the phone?
6. Do you often ask again people?
7. There you have the feeling that many of them speak vaguely?

If even a few questions you answer yes, hurry to the ENT doctor. He himself will be able to check the sharpness of your hearing loss or refer you to another doctor - the audiologist or audiologist.

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