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Hearing Loss & Hearing Aids
If you have noticed a reduction in your hearing, you’re not alone. It’s estimated that more than 40 million Americans over the age of 18 suffer from at least some hearing loss. To avoid permanent damage or hearing loss, it is important to seek treatment soon as possible. When the brain's inner ear, hearing nerve, and auditory processing regions are not used, they slowly lose the ability to interpret certain frequencies of sounds. It is possible to stimulate the hearing system once again with hearing aids, but it is more difficult to recover your listening skills the longer you wait.
UConn Health Offers Expert Hearing Support
When you trust UConn Health with your hearing concerns, our expert audiologists and ear, nose, and throat specialists will perform diagnostic hearing evaluations, identify when a medical evaluation is necessary, and recommend appropriate amplification based on your needs.
How Hearing Aids Work
A hearing aid is a small electronic device you wear in or behind your ear. It magnifies sound vibrations entering your ear so the surviving ear cells can detect and pass them along to the brain. Making some sounds louder allows you to listen, communicate, and actively participate in your daily activities.
If you have hearing loss in both ears, you might need two hearing aids. This could help you localize sounds better, distinguish one sound from another, understand speech in noisy environments, and shorten the time it takes to adjust to the hearing aids.
These devices are meant for people with reduced hearing due to aging, disease, certain medications, noise-related injury, or heredity. However, there are practical limits to the amount of amplification a hearing aid can provide, and people with severely damaged hearing may not benefit from one.
The Hearing Aids We Recommend
At UConn Health, we work with various quality hearing aid manufacturers and closely monitor the latest research and performance studies for the style of hearing aid best suited for each individual's hearing loss.
We also perform hearing aid fittings, including periodic adjustments or programming, verification testing, and hands-on support to ensure maximum benefit from sound amplification. Our providers will follow up with you and schedule multiple visits to make sure the hearing aid we recommended is perfectly suited to you.
We never get paid to promote a particular hearing aid brand. Our recommendations are based solely on your lifestyle and specific needs. All hearing aids have a 30-day trial period and come with full warranty coverage. Repair services include minor in-office and send-out manufacturer-based options.